St George’s Day Award Recipients 2014

2014 St George’s Day Award Recipients ROLL OF HONOUR © 2014 The Scout Association Registered Charity Numbers: 306101 (England and Wales) and SC038437

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Please send all contributions to: [email protected] Congratulations Please note that the views expressed by members e certainly have a spring in our step. National headlines proclaim and contributors in the magazine are not necessarily those of The Scout Association. our success, and the dedication and commitment of our volunteers and staff are recognised through the national honours and our good service awards. Across the country, society recognises theW value of Scouting’s non-formal education through fun and adventure, and this is down to our growing number of volunteers. These awards give us a great sense of pride as we recognise those who have Roll of Honour is produced by Immediate Media Branded Content, 9th Floor, Tower House, Fairfax Street, gone that extra mile with their exceptional service or acts of immense bravery Bristol BS1 3BN Editor Anna Scrivenger in overcoming adversity. We take this opportunity each year to say a very big Art Editor James Daniel and heartfelt congratulations and ‘thank you’. Project Manager Ian Ochiltree Director of Immediate Media Branded Content Julie Williams Group Publishing Director Alfie Lewis

It is important to note the differing structures of UK Scouting in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. However, for ease of reading this supplement refers to all variations of ‘County’-level groupings simply as County.

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APPLYING FOR AWARDS Do you know an inspirational adult volunteer who It can then be submitted to UK Headquarters, where goes above and beyond what is expected of them? it is considered by the Awards Board – a group of If you’d like to nominate someone special for an volunteers from across the UK. award, here’s what you need to do: Applications for Silver Acorn, Bar to the Silver Acorn and Silver Complete an award application, available from Scout Wolf can be submitted now for consideration in next year’s St Shops (scouts.org.uk/shop) or from scouts.org.uk/awards, George’s Day list, but they must be with Headquarters by using the example citations as a guide. 1 September. For all other applications, there is no deadline. The application must be submitted to the County/ For further advice on how to nominate someone, Area/Regional Commissioner to gain their please contact the Awards Team on [email protected] recommendation and support. or call 020 8433 7193/7192.

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Gallantry Awards Meritorious Awards for gallantry are made by the Chief Scout, who is advised by the Awards Board, to Beaver Conduct Awards Scouts, Cub Scouts, Scouts, Explorer Scouts, Scout Awards for meritorious conduct are made by the Network Members, Scout Active Support Members, Chief Scout, who is advised by the Awards Board, Adult Leaders, Section Assistants, Skills Instructors, to Beaver Scouts, Cub Scouts, Scouts, Explorer Scouts, Administrators, Advisers and Honorary Scouters. Scout Network Members, Scout Active Support Members, Adult Leaders, Section Assistants, Skills Instructors, Administrators, Advisers and Honorary Scouters. Awards are made for conduct involving a high degree of courage, endurance, initiative or devotion to duty, often under suffering, without necessarily involving any element of risk. The Gilt Cross The Gilt Cross is awarded for gallantry in circumstances of moderate risk. Freya Abigail Chappell Scout Network Member, Central Yorkshire Jonathan Alexander Chappell Scout Network Member, Central Yorkshire The Cornwell Stephen John Elliott Group Scout Active Support Scout Badge Member, 1st Emsworth, Havant, Hampshire The Cornwell Scout Badge is awarded in respect of Owen Geraint Llewellyn Taylor Assessor for pre-eminently high character and devotion to duty, Hillwalking, County Adviser for Mountain Activities, together with great courage and endurance to Scouts Assessor for Climbing (Single Pitch), Scout Active under the age of 25. Support Co-ordinator, Hampshire Noah Duncan Cub Scout, 13th Fife (Rosyth Methodist Church), Rosyth, East Scotland Victoria Edwards Explorer Scout, Havant, Hampshire Benjamin Hart Explorer Scout, Stourbridge, Medal for West Mercia Joseph Theo Pearson Assistant Scout Leader, Meritorious Conduct 1st Calne, District Scout Active Support Member, The Medal of Meritorious Conduct is awarded for Mid Wiltshire, Wiltshire meritorious conduct of an exceptionally high standard. Joshua Behan Cub Scout, 1st Whittlesford & Duxford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Alex Brawn Scout, 4th Denton (St Anne’s), Tameside South, Gt. Manchester East Elliot Elfwood Cub Scout, 70th Coventry, Charterhouse, City of Coventry Adele Joyce Govett Beaver Scout Leader, 1st Headcorn, Assistant District Commissioner Beaver Scouts, Appointments Secretary, Training Adviser, Weald, Kent Kirsty Joanne Harrison Assistant Beaver Scout Leader, 11th Midlothian (Penicuik), Midlothian, South East Scotland Claire Henderson District Scout Network Leader, County Tyrone Anita Mary Lowther Beaver Scout Leader, 1st Romanby Scout Group, Assistant District Commissioner Beaver Scouts, Northallerton, The Bronze Cross North Yorkshire The Bronze Cross is the highest award of the Association Victoria Saw (deceased) Assistant Cub Scout Leader, for gallantry and is granted for special heroism or action 8/14th Epsom St Barnabas & St Josephs, Epsom and in the face of extraordinary risk. Ewell, Surrey Aneurin John Wyn Heath MBE Scout Leader, Stirling Stafford Scout, 2nd Benson RAF, Gwendraeth Valley Air Scout Group, Carmarthenshire Wallingford, Oxfordshire Trevor Daniel Thompson (deceased) Assistant Scout Leader, 236th Birmingham (St Johns Perry Barr), Tame Valley Birmingham, Birmingham Lesley June Wickens Assistant District Commissioner, Training Adviser, Basingstoke East, Hampshire

scouts.org.uk/magazine 3 Max Lenoir Scout, 1st Hatfield Peverel, Maldon and East Essex, Essex Alan Maloney Group Scout Leader, 22nd Wimbledon (Holy Cross), Training Adviser, Wimbledon and Wandle, Gt. London South West Owen Tom Mann Explorer Scout Young Leader, 1st Iver Heath, Woodlands, Buckinghamshire Christopher Manning Assistant District Commissioner Scouts, Ampthill and Woburn, Bedfordshire Aston Minta Beaver Scout, 3rd Radcliffe, Radcliffe, Gt. Manchester North Laura Jane Monahan Assistant Scout Leader, 1st Southport (Ainsdale), Southport, Merseyside Declan Jack O’Dwyer Cub Scout, 1st Marlborough, Silver Wolf South Hams, Devon Adam Pengelly Scout, 1st Pinhoe, Exeter, Devon In recognition of services The Chief Scout’s William Rowland Cub Scout, 14th Radcliffe – Commendation for Ainsworth Parish Church, Radcliffe, to Scouting of the most Gt. Manchester North Meritorious Conduct Yvonne Christina Sansom (deceased) Assistant exceptional nature. A Chief Scout’s Commendation for Meritorious Conduct Cub Scout Leader, 2nd Deptford (St Nicholas’ and is awarded for meritorious conduct of a high standard. St Lukes), Lewisham, Gt. London South The Silver Wolf was introduced by Daniel Blackshaw Cub Scout, 1st Docking, Claire Scarff Group Scout Leader (Acting), Lord Baden-Powell and remains the North West Norfolk, Norfolk Beaver Scout Leader, Cub Scout Leader, 1st Feltwell, Scout Association’s highest award for Peter Bradshaw Cub Scout, 71st Ayrshire South West Norfolk, Norfolk service to Scouting. The Silver Wolf is (Skelmorlie), North Ayrshire and Arran, South West David Scott Cub Scout Leader, 93rd Newcastle, the unrestricted gift of the Chief Scout – Scotland District Scout Active Support Member, City of Anthony Hugh Brown Assistant Scout Leader, Newcastle, Northumberland and is only awarded ‘for service of an 1st Woodcutts, East Dorset, Dorset Karen Diane Sloan District Scout Active exceptional nature’. It is not normally Kathleen Theresa Chater Assistant Beaver Support Member, Gang Show Producer, Glendon, awarded until at least a Silver Acorn Scout Leader, 27th Derby (Chaddesden), Northamptonshire has been gained. In practice, this Derby East, Derbyshire Harry Smith Explorer Scout, Ampthill and Woburn, means that it is seldom awarded for Pamela Mary Clarke Assistant Cub Scout Leader, Bedfordshire 3rd Cheam, Sutton, Gt. London South West Alfie-Lee Stevens Cub Scout, 3rd Leigh Park, less than 30 years’ service, although Max Cole Beaver Scout, 231st Sheffield (Shiregreen), Havant, Hampshire this is not always the case. Sheffield Don, South Yorkshire Matthew Taylor Scout, 1st Boroughbridge, Ripon Ian Arthur Colquhoun (deceased) Scout Sectional and District, North Yorkshire Sidney Douglas Adams Camp Warden, District Assistant, 1st Ashington, Wansbeck, County Assessor, Matthew John Thorne Assistant Cub Scout Leader, Scout Active Support Member, Stowmarket, Suffolk Northumberland 1st Watchfield and Shrivenham, King Alfred, Oxfordshire Philip Alexander Group Chairman, 2nd Epsom Michael Corbet Cub Scout, 3rd Radcliffe, Radcliffe, Anne Thornton Assistant Beaver Scout Leader, (Christ Church), District Appointment Advisory Gt. Manchester North Dewsbury West, Appointments Secretary, Heavy Committee Member, Training Adviser Admin, Derrick John East District Explorer Scout Woollen, West Yorkshire District Supporter, Epsom and Ewell, Surrey Administrator, District Scout Active Support Member, Nigel Graeme Turton Assistant Scout Leader, Reverend David Allen Group Vice President, Queen’s Scout Award Co-ordinator, Croydon, 1st Woodcutts, East Dorset, Dorset 19th Bolton West (Bolton School), District Adviser Faiths Gt. London South West Sarah Wilshaw BSc Hons (deceased) Scout and Beliefs, Bolton West, Gt. Manchester North Robert Michael Peter Easton Scout Leader, Leader, 10th North Leeds, North Leeds, Central Yorks Enid Judy Annear Cub Scout Leader, 1st Woodcutts, East Dorset, Dorset Alexander John Wise Assistant Cub Scout Leader, 1st Threemilestone (Truro), District Executive Member, Wendy Susan Gaskin Assistant Cub Scout Leader, 2nd Acomb York (St Stephen’s), York Ebor, North Truro, Cornwall 27th Derby (Chaddesden), Derby East, Derbyshire Yorkshire Stuart Eric Ballard Assistant Cub Scout Leader, 1st Dr Alastair Clydesdale Graves (deceased) Marie Wroe Group Scout Leader, 38th Rotherham, Keynsham, Training Adviser, Wansdyke, Queen’s Scout Assistant Beaver Scout Leader, 67th Doncaster Rotherham, South Yorkshire Award Co-ordinator, Deputy County Commissioner, Avon (Sprotbrough), Doncaster Danum, South Yorkshire David Wyeth Scout, 5th Woodley, Loddon, Audrey Bentley Group Secretary, 11th Spen Sonia Jane Grebot (deceased) Group Scout Royal Berkshire Valley Hunsworth, District Secretary, Spen Valley, Leader, 2nd Whitton, Richmond upon Thames, Andrew John Young Cub Scout Leader, West Yorkshire Gt. London South West 1st Woodcutts, East Dorset, Dorset David Bentley Scout Leader, 11th Spen Valley Kira Jarvis Scout, 1st Hatfield Peverel, Maldon and Hunsworth, District Nights Away Adviser, Spen Valley, East Essex, Essex West Yorkshire Scott Jones Explorer Scout, Cheltenham, John Bilsborough District Executive Member, Gloucestershire Wigan and District, Gt. Manchester West Benjamin Kendall Assistant Scout Leader, St Johns George Stewart Blyth Regional Camp Warden (Newland), City of Hull, Humberside Scotland, East – Scotland David George Knight Assistant Scout Leader, Richard Alan Bourton Group Scout Leader, 22nd Dorking (Brockham), Dorking, Surrey 1st Dorking (St Martin’s), District Cub Scout Leader, Brian Lamont Scout Leader, 8th Purley and District Explorer Scout Leader (Young Leader), Dorking, Surrey St Mary’s Sanderstead, Croydon, Gt. London South West Sir William Arthur Bromley-Davenport Yvonne Lamont Group Scout Leader, 8th Purley and KCVO County President, Cheshire District St Mary’s Sanderstead, Croydon, Gt. London Derek William Bullimore District Appointment South West Advisory Committee Member, District Nights Away Ashley Lawrence Scout Leader, 1st North Wingfield, Adviser, Wansbeck, District Scout Active Support Chesterfield, Scout Active Support Member, Derbyshire Member, City of Newcastle, Northumberland

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Gladys Hunter Bullimore District Nights Away Terence Robert Harris District Supporter, County Administrator, Local Training Manager, Training Adviser, District Appointment Advisory Committee City of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Adviser, Northamptonshire Member, District Secretary, Appointments Secretary, Alan William Harryman District Explorer Geoffrey Philip Pinney Group President, Central Wansbeck, District Scout Active Support Member, Scout Administrator, Eden, Local Training Manager, Taunton, District Scout Active Support Member, City of Newcastle, Northumberland Trainer, Cumbria Taunton Deane, Somerset Kathleen Campbell Group Sectional Assistant, Peter Hart District Executive Member, District Christopher Trevor Pope District Scout Active 126th Lanarkshire All Saints 5th Airdrie, Calder, Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Wigan Support Member, North East Wiltshire, County Clyde – Scotland and District, Gt. Manchester West Treasurer, Training Adviser, Wiltshire Stephen Roland John Chandler Deputy David Hatliff District Scout Active Support Member, John Blair Potter Scout Sectional Assistant, District Commissioner, North East Wiltshire, County District Chairman, York Minster, North Yorkshire 5th Beckenham South (St. Edmund’s), District Nights Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Wiltshire William Peter Hodgson County Skills Away Adviser, District Appointment Advisory Committee Roger James Cole District Scout Active Support Instructor, Avon Member, Bromley, Gt. London South East Member, UK Arab Scout Region Scout Active Support Adam Nicholas Jollans District Scout Active Kenneth Powell Training Adviser, District Scout Unit, National Headquarters, Group Adviser, Support Co-ordinator, UK Kandersteg Network-Scout Active Support Member, District Adviser for Water 1st Broomfield, District Executive Member, District Active Support Unit, District Commissioner (Acting) Activities, Farnham, County Boat Inspector, Surrey Scout Active Support Member, Camp Warden, Meon Valley, County Commissioner, Hampshire Marina Powers Beaver Scout Leader, 1st Ballyclare Chelmsford and District, Essex Terence John Jones Group Scout Active (High School), South East Antrim, County Antrim Anne Collier Assistant District Commissioner Beaver Support Member, 1st Luton Sea Scout Group, John Michael Riddle Appointments Secretary, Scouts, District Executive Member, Oldham, County Icknield(Luton), Bedfordshire Oldham, Gt. Manchester North Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Training James Kelly District Scout Active Support Member, Henry James George Ringe Group President, Adviser, Gt. Manchester North Craigalmond, District Scout Active Support Member – 1st Crowborough, District Scout Active Support Jean Frances Cooke District Scout Active Support Scotland, South East – Scotland Member, District Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Training Adviser, Surrey Heath, Surrey George Bertram Kerr Group Chairman, Member, Training Adviser, District Secretary, Ashdown, Margaret Ann Cooper District Scout Active 1st/4th Adlestone (St Paul’s), District Scout Active District Administrator, East Sussex Support Member, Adult Training Support Active Support Member, District Secretary, Appointments David Laurence Shipton District Scout Active Support Unit, National Headquarters, Beaver Scout Secretary, Runneymede, Surrey Support Member, Sutton Coldfield East, Birmingham Leader 1st Awsworth (St Peter’s) Beauvale, County Alan Robert Lane Group Scout Leader, 7th Malden Geoffrey Kenneth Shuttleworth Group Scout Training Manager, Local Training Administrator, (St. James’), District Vice President, Royal Kingston, Leader, 236th Birmingham (St. Johns Perry Barr), Assistant County Commissioner, Trainer, Training Gt. London South West Training Adviser, Tame Valley Birmingham, Assistant Adviser, Nottinghamshire George Anthony Leadbeater District Executive County Commissioner International, Birmingham Pamela Anne Copeland District Secretary, Lilford, Member, District Appointment Advisory Committee Richard Stephen Smith Group Scout Leader, Local Training Manager, Gt. Manchester West Member, District Scout Active Support Member, 1st Carlton in Lindrick St John’s, Bassetlaw, Peter Rodney Cousins Group Scout Leader, Knutsford and District, Cheshire Training Adviser, Nottinghamshire 7th Newark, Newark and District, Training Adviser, John Ralph Capper Lewis District Vice President, Frederick George South Scout Sectional Assistant, Nottinghamshire Bolton South with Farnworth, Gt. Manchester North 29th Brighton (Preston) St John the Evangelist, Training Dr Christopher Richard Croker BDS Vivienne Caroline Sterling Lewis Cub Scout Adviser, District Scout Active Support Member, County Chairman, South Yorkshire Leader, 44th Swansea (Sketty Church) Swansea and Brighton and Hove, East Sussex Dr Edward Mountford Deeley Group Skills Gower, Deputy Assistant County Commissioner Cub Douglas Roger Sullivan Group President, Instructor, 1st Osterley, Thameside Grand Union, Scouts, Glamorgan West Group Supporter, 3rd West Wickham St John the Baptist, Gt. London Middlesex West John Boothroyd Lockwood District Appointment Bromley, Gt. London South East Margarette Daphne Donaldson District Advisory Committee Member, Huddersfield South West, Dean Crawley Quentin Sutton JP FRICS Appointment Advisory Committee Member, District West Yorkshire County Vice President, Gt. London South West Scout Active Support Member, Richmond upon Thames, Derek Roland Marleigh Ludlow Group Scout Alan Edmund Thomason Group Scout Leader, County Vice President, Gt. London South West Leader, 18th Dorking (North Holmwood), District Scout 1st Moore, Mersey Weaver, Cheshire Kenneth Charles Dulson District Scout Active Active Support Member, District Scout Active Support Janet Lillian June Thurnell District Appointment Support Co-ordinator, District Executive Member, Manager, Dorking, Surrey Advisory Committee Member, District Scout Active Maidstone East, Kent Therese MacNeil Beaver Scout Leader, 1st West Support Member, District Member, Thurrock, Essex Clive John Farley District Nights Away Adviser, Lothian, West Lothian, Trainer, Forth – Scotland Reverend Geoffrey Elmer Walton Poole, Trainer, Local Training Manager, Dorset Ian Andrew McLuckie Group President, County Vice President, Dorset Alan Fish District Adviser, North Tameside, 13th/21st Harrow, District Secretary, District Scout Nicola Jytte Wells Cub Scout Leader, Gt. Manchester East Active Support Member, Harrow and Wealdstone, 1st Sandridge, Training Adviser, District Supporter Christine Lesley Fitton District Executive Member, Gt. London Middlesex West St Albans, Hertfordshire District Appointment Advisory Committee Member, John Errol McMahon County Training Manager, Philip Wells District Supporter, St Albans, District Scout Active Support Member, Blackpool and Birmingham Hertfordshire District, West Lancashire Christopher Norman Moss (deceased) David Clive Whittington District Advisory Anthony David Gait Assistant Group Scout Leader, Assistant Group Scout Leader, Chorley Healey, Committee Member, Eastleigh And District, 15th Finchley (Christ Church), Camp Warden, Barnet Chorley, West Lancashire County Vice President, Hampshire Borough, Gt. London North Marian Padbury Group Scout Leader, Group Percy Arthur Williams Group President, Brian William Greenwood Group Sectional Executive Member, 1st Stanningley (St. Thomas), District 3rd Orpington The Pathfinders, Bromley, Assistant, Group Scout Leader (Acting), 3rd Long Eaton Executive Member, Training Adviser, District Scout Gt. London South East (St John’s), Long Eaton and District, Derbyshire Active Support Member, West Leeds, Central Yorkshire Christine Wright Assistant Cub Scout Leader, Jacqueline Elaine Wendy Gregory Local Training Glynn Stacey Payne (deceased) District Scout Active 20th Batley (St Thomas), Heavy Woollen, West Yorkshire Manager, County Training Administrator, Trainer, Dorset Support Member, District Executive Member, Dr Graham Haddock Headquarters Sub City of Newcastle, Northumberland Committee Member, National Headquarters, Training Kevin Jacques Payne Scout Leader, 1st Charmouth, Administrator – Scotland, Greenock and District, Dorchester and West Dorset, Dorset West – Scotland, Scout Active Support Member, Susan Harris Pearson Group Administrator, Chief Commissioner, Scotland 1st Glendon Sea Scouts, Wellingborough, District Dr Richard Harrington District Scout Active Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Support Member, Harpenden and Wheathampstead, Assistant District Commissioner Adult Support, County Commissioner, Hertfordshire District Executive Member, Training Adviser, Grafton, scouts.org.uk/magazine 5 Robert Ian Beck Group Scout Leader (Acting), Jacqueline Lesley Craven District Scout Active 2nd Huddersfield (Colne Valley), District Commissioner, Support Member, Bradford North, West Yorkshire Huddersfield South West, West Yorkshire Kevin Peter Cummings Group Scout Leader, Michael Richard Bell County Executive Member, Avon 3rd Canvey Island English Martyrs, Deputy District Keith Laurence Bennett District Commissioner, Commissioner, Training Adviser, Castle Point, Essex District Secretary (Acting), Mid Wiltshire, District Dr John Danks Assistant Cub Scout Leader, 1st Administrator, Wiltshire West, Wiltshire Petteril Vale, District Executive Member, Eden, Cumbria Robert Gavin Bernard Appointments Secretary, Heather Davidson District Scout Active Support Caithness, Regional Vice President Scotland, Highlands Member, Sheffield Sheaf, Training Adviser (Admin), and Islands – Scotland County Adviser, County Adviser for Creative Activities, Yvette Ann Billings Cub Scout Leader, 5th Canvey South Yorkshire Island Air Scout Group, Training Adviser, Explorer Scout Paul Richard Dickson District Scout Active Support Leader (Young Leader), Castle Point, Essex Member, UK Kandersteg Network – Scout Active Ronald David Binfield District Camp Warden, Support Unit, National Headquarters, Deputy County District Scout Active Support Member, Farnham, Surrey Commissioner (Programme), County Executive Member, Lesley Kathleen Bixby District Badge Secretary, Gt. London Middlesex West District Scout Active Support Member, Adrian John Ducker Group Scout Leader, Bar to the Wimbledon and Wandle, County Secretary, 1st Hinchley Wood, Training Adviser, Esher, Surrey Gt. London South West Ruth Dundas Assistant Cub Scout Leader, 1st York Silver Acorn Philip Tobias Blosse Group Chairman, 3rd Hayling (Poppleton), York Ebor, North Yorkshire In recognition of (Brotherhood Own), Havant, Hampshire John Dunford Stock Control Manager, Scout Shops Carol Ann Bostock Scout Active Support Member, Ltd, Headquarters, further specially Trainer, Training Adviser, Assistant County Commissioner, Mary Durrant District Scout Active Support Member, Nottinghamshire Stowmarket, Training Adviser, Suffolk distinguished service. Eric Francis Bradley Group Chairman, 16th Croydon Margaret Ellison District Appointments Advisory (Croydon Minster and St Michaels) Scout Group, Committee Member, District Scout Active Support The Bar to the Silver Acorn can Croydon, Local Training Manager, Training Adviser, Gt. Member, Deep Sea Scouts, National Headquarters, London South West Training Adviser, Safeguarding Awareness only be awarded after a Silver Acorn Michael Brian Brazier Group Scout Leader, Co-ordinator, Local Training Manager, has been gained. 1st Hayes, Hayes And Harlington, Training Adviser, Royal Berkshire, District Administrator, Pang Valley, Gt. London Middlesex West District Scout Active Support Member, Reading Brian Frederick John Abbott Group Scout Leader, Judith Margaret Brooke District Supporter, Central, Royal Berkshire Hillside, District Scout Active Support Member, Assistant Rochdale, Gt. Manchester North Elaine Ann Farr BSc Group Scout Leader Explorer Scout Leader, Thurrock, Essex Norman Brown Group Scout Leader, 3rd Hindley, 46th Northampton (Overstone), District Appointment Norman Alexander Allan District Secretary, District Executive Member, Wigan and District, Advisory Committee Member, District Nights Training Adviser, Borders, South East – Scotland Gt. Manchester West Away Adviser, Training Adviser, Northampton, Christopher Henry Alleeson Assistant District Audrey Margaret Buchan District Scout Active Northamptonshire Bernard Winston Farrell District Scout Active Commissioner Development, District Scout Active Support Co-ordinator, Thameside Grand Union, Gt. London Middlesex West Support Member, Croydon, Training Adviser, County Support Member, District Administrator, Hayes and Andrew Richard Bunting MBE District Scout Executive Member, Gt. London South West Harlington, Local Training Administrator, County Scouter, Active Support Member, District Scout Leader, Training Russell Christopher Feast District Member, Training Adviser, Gt. London Middlesex West Adviser, Hatfield Forest, Essex Canterbury Whitstable and Herne Bay, Kent Edward George Appleton Group Chairman, Gillian MacDonald Caldwell National Donald Harvey Fern Group President, 4th Eastleigh Dane Valley, Macclesfield and Congleton, County Headquarters Volunteer Admin, Specialist Adviser and District, Eastleigh and District, Hampshire Treasurer, Cheshire (Adult Training), National Headquarters, Group Gerald Francis Fletcher Assistant Cub Scout Leader, David Keith Ashton Group Scout Leader, 7th Batley Scout Leader, 35th Glasgow (Crookfur) Eastwood, 1st Marple Scouts, Goyt, Gt. Manchester East St. Andrew’s Purlwell, District Executive Member, Clyde-Scotland, Trainer, Scottish Headquarters David Robert Folkerd Group Scout Leader, 25th Heavy Woollen, West Yorkshire Commissioner Adult Training, Scotland Ealing, Ealing and Hanwell, Gt. London Middlesex West Benjamin Bertus Balaam District Explorer Scout Juliet Mary Carre Group Scout Leader, 2nd Guernsey Peter Hutchinson Forbes District Scout Leader, Administrator, Bishops Stortford and District, County (Capelles Methodist), Bailiwick of Guernsey, Bailiwick South Berkshire, Royal Berkshire Training Manager, Hertfordshire of Guernsey Graham Fox District Supporter, Swindon Keith Raymond Barber BSC (Hons) David John Carter Group Scout Leader, 1st Ridgeway, Wiltshire Psych District Commissioner, District Secretary Whitstable, Canterbury Whitstable and Herne Bay, Kent Elizabeth Jane Fraser Trainer, County (Acting) Bury St Edmunds, Trainer, Suffolk Ann Chapman Cub Scout Leader, 10th Radcliffe Commissioner, Humberside Neil Philip Barnes District Nights Away Adviser, (New Church), Radcliffe, Gt. Manchester North Lynda Elizabeth Fraser Assistant Cub Scout Leader, District Scout Active Support Member, Billericay John Cooper (deceased) District Vice President, 1st Barry (Methodist), Barry, Area Nights Away Adviser, and Wickford, Supporter of the Nights Away Permit Wokingham, Assessor for Canoeing Open Inland, Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Scheme, County Administrator, Trainer, Assessor Assessor for Canoeing River, County Boat Inspector, Robin Gent District Vice President, District Treasurer, Royal Berkshire Long Eaton and District, Derbyshire for Kayaking River, Assessor for Canoeing River, David Copeland District Appointment Advisory Michael John Gerrard District Nights Away Adviser, Scout Active Support Member, County Nights Committee Member, District Executive Member, District Scout Leader, Mid Cheshire, Cheshire Away Adviser, Essex Lilford, County Executive Member, John Kenneth Gilbert Group Scout Leader, 115th Andrew Graham Bassett Group Treasurer, Gt. Manchester West Fife, Training Adviser, District Appointment Advisory 1st Tyne Sea Scouts, District Treasurer, City of Newcastle, Bradley Cox MBE Scout Leader, 4th Canvey Island Committee Member, Kirkcaldy, East – Scotland County Executive Member, Northumberland Sea Scouts, District Nights Away Adviser, Castle Point, Elizabeth Rosemary Glindon Explorer Scout Brian Louis Beardsley District Scout Active Assessor for Power Boating, Scout Active Support Leader, Barnet Borough, Gt. London North Support Member, 2nd Gilwell Park Active Support Member, Essex Leslie Charles Glindon Explorer Scout Leader, Unit, National Headquarters, Group Scout Leader, Kathleen Maria Coy Beaver Scout Leader, 5th Barnet Borough, Gt. London North 1st Knottingley (St. Botolphs), District Scout Lichfield (Holycross), Lichfield, Staffordshire Susan Patricia Godding District Scout Active Active Support Member, Pontefract and Castleford, Geoffrey Crabb Scout Leader, 2nd Templecombe, Support Member, District Badge Secretary, District Central Yorkshire District Scout Active Support Member, Camelot, Somerset Executive Member, Pang Valley, Royal Berkshire

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Kevin Frederick Green Group Scout Leader, John Trevor Jones Assistant District Commissioner George Henry Gardiner Mitchell CBE DL 1st Shevington (Wigan), Wigan and District, Activities, Bristol South, Assessor for Rowing and District Appointments Chairman, District Executive Gt. Manchester West Sculling, County Adviser for Water Activities, Avon Member, Tynemouth, Northumberland Philip Leslie Green District Commissioner, John MacAllister Kerr Group Scout Leader, Bernard Moore District Nights Away Adviser, Deputy City of Westminster, Gt. London Middlesex West 19th Ayrshire (Killwinning), North Ayrshire and Arran, District Commissioner, Torridge, Training Adviser, Local Anthony Charles Grogan District Adviser, Croydon, South West – Scotland Training Manager, County Appointments Secretary, Gt. London South West Sarah Louise Kershaw Beaver Scout Leader, County Executive Member, Trainer, Devon David George Hall Deputy County Commissioner, 13th Twickenham (St Mary), Assistant District Miles Kevin Morris Group Scout Leader, County Executive Member, Gloucestershire Commissioner Beaver Scouts, Richmond upon Thames, 3rd Teddington (Christchurch), Deputy District John Hall Explorer Scout Leader, Haringey, Gt. London South West Commissioner, Richmond upon Thames, Training Adviser, Scout Active Support Member, Scout Active Support Roger William Edwin Kettle Scout Active Support Gt. London South West Manager, Trainer, Gt. London North Member, Gt. Manchester West Richard Victor Morrison District Scout Active Alan Jeffrey Hands Group President, 4th Poplar Anthony Peter Kilburn District Commissioner, Support Manager, Lewisham District, Gt. London South (Ss.Mary and Joseph), District Scout Active Support Swindon North, Wiltshire Geoffrey Edward Morriss Group Treasurer, Member, District Vice President, East London, Professor John Richard Kirwan County Trainer, 1st Newcross (The Greys), Lewisham District, Trainer, Deputy County Commissioner, Gt. London County Chairman, Avon Gt. London South North East Rosmarie Kirwan County Training Manager, Trainer, Peter Furness Moseley District Secretary, Paul James Harris District Scout Active Support Training Adviser, Avon Sheffield Hallam, South Yorkshire Member, UK Kandersteg Network – Scout Active Eileen Lambourne Group Scout Leader, 1st Wootton David John Mosley District Scout Active Support Support Unit, National Headquarters, Assistant District Bassett, Swindon Ridgeway, Wiltshire Member, District Vice President, Harrogate and Commissioner Group Support, Castle Point, Essex Philip Alan Lamprell Group Treasurer, 3rd Orpington Nidderdale, County Skills Instructor, County Adviser for Richard James Hart District Commissioner, The Pathfinders, Bromley, Gt. London South East Dockland Scout Project, County Administrator, Dr Bruce Cochran Lane Group Scout Leader, Water Activities, North Yorkshire Assessor for Motor Cruising, Assessor for Yachting, 1st Norley, Mersey Weaver, Training Adviser, Cheshire Cyril Anthony Mullen Group Scout Active Assessor for Pulling, Assessor for Keelboating, John William Larkin Group Scout Leader, Support Manager, 256th Bristol Christchurch Hengrove, Local Training Administrator, Manager of the Activity 2nd Hemel Hempstead (Grove Hill), Training Adviser, Bristol South, Avon Permit Scheme, Gt. London North Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire Phillip Arthur Nice Group Scout Active Support Mandy Jane Hawke Cub Scout Leader David Leonard District Scout Active Support Member, Manager, 1st Stanford-le-Hope, Group Secretary, 3rd Hayling (Brotherhood Own), District Cub Scout District Vice President, District Supporter, Harrogate and 1st Horndon on the Hill, District Appointments Chairman, Leader, Havant, Hampshire Nidderdale, Training Adviser, Trainer, North Yorkshire Stanford-le-Hope and District, Essex Richard David Haynes Cub Scout Leader, Scout William Frank James Lewis Group Scout Leader, Adrian Frederick Nicholson District Member, Leader, 1st Leverstock Green, District Executive Member, 3rd Perivale, Greenford and District, Gt. London Bassetlaw, Training Adviser, Nottinghamshire Training Adviser, Hemel Hempstead, Assistant County Middlesex West Alexander Martin Nikitits Scout Leader, Commissioner Cub Scouts, Hertfordshire Susan Lucy Lister District Commissioner, 16th St Albans, Training Adviser, St Albans, Hertfordshire Alan Hayton Assistant Camp Warden, Wrexham and District, Training Adviser, Clwyd John Ivan Osborne Group Scout Leader, 1st Inkpen Gt. Manchester West Isabel Mackie Group Scout Leader, 25th Fife and Kintbury, District Nights Away Adviser, District Scout Antony James Hayward District Executive Member, (Markinch), Glenrothes and Levenmouth, East – Scotland Active Support Member, Kennet, Training Adviser, District Scout Active Support Co-ordinator, District Alan Mangles District Commissioner, Crook and Royal Berkshire Nights Away Adviser, Assistant District Commissioner Weardale, Training Adviser, Durham Richard John Paragreen Occassional Helper, Activities, Wokingham, County Boat Inspector, Peter Thomas Marsh Assistant Cub Scout Leader, 1st Foxton, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, Assessor for Rafting (Traditional), Royal Berkshire Group Scout Leader, 1st Stretford (1st Longford), County Executive Member, Northamptonshire Marilyn Joyce Hendricksen Cub Scout Stretford, County Appointment Advisory Committee Antony George Parker Assistant Group Scout Leader, 29th Cardiff, Cardiff East and South, Member, Gt. Manchester West Leader, 1st Fordingham Bridge, Assistant District Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Roy Masini District Scout Active Support Member, Commissioner, District Nights Away Adviser, District Bernard John Hill Assistant Group Scout Leader, Deep Sea Scouts, National Headquarters, Scout Active Camp Warden, New Forest West, Training Adviser, 84th Birmingham (Trinity Methodist), Tame Valley Support Member, Hertfordshire, District Appointment Local Training Manager, Hampshire Birmingham, Birmingham Advisory Committee Member, West London, David Perry Welsh Board of Trustees – Member, Coral May Howard District Administrator, Gt London Middlesex West, District Skills Instructor, Explorer Scout Leader, Conwy, Training Adviser, Cole Valley South, Birmingham Dockland Scout Project, Gt. London North, Assistant Snowdonia and Anglesey David John Hutton BSc Group Executive Scout Leader, Assistant Group Scout Leader, 4th Elaine Janet Gray Pert Group Scout Leader, 48th Member, Occasional Helper, 1st Little Stoke, Streatham (Princess Marie Louises Own Sea Scouts), Fife (Dalgety Bay), Appointments Secretary, District Scout District Executive Member, District Scout Active District Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Active Support Co-ordinator, Roysth, East – Scotland Support Member, Brunel, Avon Lambeth, County Boat Inspector, Gt. London South David William Pfeiffer Cub Scout Leader, Group Richard Smith Ivens District Scout Active Gillian Irene May Training Adviser, District Executive Member, 2nd Cuddington (Rowe), Training Support Member, Gordano, County Administrator, Administrator, Deputy District Commissioner, Barking Adviser, Epsom and Ewell, Surrey County Associate Member, Avon and Dagenham, Local Training Administrator, Michael Jarman District Scout Active Support Gt. London North East Bruce Poole Queen’s Scout Award Co-ordinator, Member, Deep Sea Scouts, National Headquarters, Robert Arden Mayne Group Scout Leader, 206th County Vice President, County Secretary, Somerset District Scout Active Support Member, Icknield Birmingham (St Laurence), Rea Valley, Birmingham Norman Edwin Pope District Executve Member, (Luton), Bedfordshire Dr Ian McAlpine Group Scout Leader, 3rd Shaw Grafton, County Executive Member, Northamptonshire Anthony Richard Jennions Explorer Scout Leader, (St Mary’s), Crompton and Royton, County Appointment Richard Pope Group Scout Leader, 2nd Allerton Liverpool South, Merseyside Advisory Committee Member, Deputy County 29th Liverpool Arthur Noble Memorial Scout Group, John Johnson District Secretary, District Appointment Commissioner, Gt. Manchester North District Nights Away Adviser, Assistant Explorer Scout Advisory Committee Member, District Scout Active Neil James McLauchlan District Nights Away Leader, Liverpool South, Merseyside Support Manager, Chorley, West Lancashire Adviser, Deputy District Commissioner, Wimbledon Dr Thomas Porter District Scout Active Support Suzanne Avril Johnson District Scout Leader and Wandle, Gt. London South West Member, District President, Urmston and District, South Berkshire, Training Adviser, Royal Berkshire David Marc Metcalfe Camp Warden, Gt. Manchester West David Alan Jones Assistant Cub Scout Leader, County Scouter, Cheshire Peter John Povey District Chairman, North East 1st Rossett, Wrexham and District, Area Treasurer, Clwyd Diane Jean Mills Cub Scout Leader, 1st/4th Wiltshire, Wiltshire John Robinson Jones CEng MIMech E Hanworth Thameside Grand Union, Gt. London David Prescott Group Executive Member, District Secretary, Romney Marsh, Kent Middlesex West 11th Spen Valley Hunsworth, Spen Valley, West Yorkshire scouts.org.uk/magazine 7 Russell Graham Priestley Group Administrator, Alan Stack Group Scout Leader, 8th Hayes, Irene Wheatley Group Executive Member, Scout Leader, 7th Purley All Saints Kenley, Croydon, District Executive Member, Hayes and Harlington, 1st Bispham, District Beaver Scout Leader, District Gt. London South West Training Adviser, Gt. London Middlesex West Administrator, District Scout Active Support Manager, Brian George Quinn District Scout Active Support Roger Lawrence Starr BSc MPhil District Scout Blackpool and District, West Lancashire Member, South Ribble, West Lancashire Active Support Member, Deep Sea Scouts, National Philip Wilson Wheatley Group Executive Member, John Paul Raine Assistant County Commissioner Headquarters, County Skills Instructor, Avon 1st Bipsham, District executive Member, District Cub Scouts, Training Adviser, Gt. Manchester North Ian Victor Stewart Trainer, Northern Ireland, Scout Leader, District Scout Active Support Member, Derek Redfern Group Scout Leader, 1st Middleton District Commissioner, District Executive Member, Blackpool and District, West Lancashire (St Leonards), Middleton, Training Adviser, South Belfast, Belfast Gwen White BEM Cub Scout Leader, Gt. Manchester North Eunice Veronica Stone Assistant Cub Scout Leader, 14th Radcliffe (Ainsworth Parish Church), Radcliffe, Patrick George Richardson District Appointment 12th Windsor, Windsor and Eton, Royal Berkshire Gt. Manchester North Advisory Committee Member, Assistant District Barbara Eileen Stroud Cub Scout Leader, William White Group Scout Leader, 14th Radcliffe Commissioner Cub Scouts, District Nights Away Adviser, 65th Aberdeen (Milltimber), District Scout Active (Ainsworth Parish Church), District President, Radcliffe, Daventry and District, Northamptonshire Support Member, Aberdeen, North East – Scotland Gt. Manchester North Colin Keith Rivett District Executive Member, Patricia Swinburn District Scout Active Support Rosalind Mary Wicks District Beaver Scout Leader, Assistant District Commissioner Development, Training Manager, Sheffield Don, South Yorkshire North West Norfolk, Norfolk Adviser, District Appointment Advisory Committee Mark Ian Tarry Assessor for Climbing (Single Pitch), Kenneth James Willard Assistant Scout Leader, Member, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire County Skills Instructor, North Yorkshire, Member of S.S. Peter and Paul, District Nights Away Adviser, David Lawrence Rixson Assistant District Development Grants Board, National Headquarters, District Scout Active Support Member, Training Adviser, Commissioner, Croydon, Gt. London South West Deputy Chief Commissioner (England), England Godalming, Surrey Bruce Robinson Group Scout Leader, 3rd South Josephine Taylor District Appointment Advisory Andrew Wilson Regional Camp Warden Shields Sea Scouts, South Tyneside, Durham Committee Member, Bradford South, Deputy County Scotland, Scout Active Support Manager – Scotland, Ian Robinson Cub Scout Leader, 1st Dinas Powys, Training Manager, Trainer, West Yorkshire Clyde – Scotland Penarth and District, Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Keith Charles Thompson District Commissioner, David Reginald Woodward Group Scout Leader, Margaret Ellen Robinson Explorer Scout Leader, District Administrator, Stowmarket, Suffolk 1st Bedworth, District Appointment Advisory Committee South Tyneside, Durham Mary Thompson Cub Scout Leader, 1st Caithness, Member, District Nights Away Adviser, Training Adviser, Samuel Frank Robinson BSc ARCS (1st Wick), Assistant District Commissioner Adult Training Nuneaton, Warwickshire Group Treasurer, Group Executive Member, Scotland, Assistant District Commissioner Cub Scouts, Doreen Worden Group Scout Leader, Central 1st Southport (Ainsdale), District Treasurer, Southport, Caithness, Trainer, Highlands and Islands – Scotland Ribbleton, Preston and District, West Lancashire County Treasurer, Merseyside David Thornton Group Scout Leader, Dewsbury West Dr Andrew Charles Wright Group Scout Leader, Ruth Alison Rogers Assistant District Commissioner, (St Saviours), District Scout Active Support Manager, 4th Harrow, District Scout Active Support Member, District Appointments Chairman, Stretford, Local Training Heavy Woollen, West Yorkshire Harrow and Wealdstone, Training Adviser, Gt. London Manager, Gt. Manchester West Leslie John Thurston Group Member, 1st Takeley, Middlesex West Sheila Joy Rogers Group Scout Leader, District Nights Away Adviser, Training Adviser, District Harold Ernest Wright Scout Leader, 6th Eckington, 1st Robertsbridge, Senlac, East Sussex Scout Active Support Member, Hatfield Forest, Essex Dronfield, Derbyshire Janet Vivien Rope Group Executive Member, Pamela Tovey Assistant Cub Scout Leader, 1st Acle, District Scout Active Support Member, 31st Gloucester (Highnam), Appointments East Norfolk, Norfolk Secretary, District Scout Active Support Member, Robert Trevor Salter Beaver Scout Leader, 2nd Gloucester, Gloucestershire Herne Bay, Canterbury Whitstable and Herne Bay, Kent David Brian Treadwell Group Scout Active Support John Charles Sear Assistant District Commissioner Member, 144th Birmingham (1st Sheldon), District Scouts, Ealing and Hanwell, Gt. London Middlesex West Nights Away Adviser, District Scout Leader, Spitfire, Barry Sheehan District Chairman, Radcliffe, Birmingham County Executive Member, Gt. Manchester North Malcolm Basil Douglas Turner Group Scout Alan Shipway Group Treasurer, Group Sectional Leader, 1st Ealing North, Ealing and Hanwell, Assistant, 16th Fleetwood, District Explorer Scout Gt. London Middlesex West Commissioner, District Appointment Advisory Committee Mervyn David Twaits District President, Member, Wyre, West Lancashire District Scout Active Support Member, East Norfolk, Richard Douglas Short Group Scout Leader, County Appointment Advisory Committee Member, 1st/3rd Houghton Regis, District Scout Active County Executive Member, Norfolk Support Member, District Executive Committee Hendrik Van Welsenes Group Scout Leader, Member, Dunstable, Training Adviser, County Trainer, Crofton Oak, Bromley, County Adviser For Air Activities, Bedfordshire Training Adviser, Assistant County Commissioner, Reverend David Skuce District Commissioner Gt. London South East (Acting), County Tyrone, County Training Manager, Jennifer Hilary Varley Assistant County County Commissioner, County Tyrone Commissioner Activities, Manager of the Activity Permit Michael Smith District President, Eastleigh and Scheme, Activity Centre Staff, Central Yorkshire District, Hampshire Robert Warburton Group Treasurer, 3rd Taunton Paul Robert Southcott District Skills Instructor, (Bishops’ Lydeard), District Executive Member, District Dockland Scout Project, Group Scout Leader, Scout Active Support Manager, Taunton Deane, 14th Seven Kings, Training Adviser, Ilford East, Somerset Assistant County Commissioner Activities, Anthony Spencer Watson Group Scout Leader, Trainer, Deputy County Commissioner, 1st Bagshot, District Appointment Advisory Committee Gt. London North East Member, Surrey Heath, Surrey Edward John Sowells MBE Explorer Scout Leader Kay Watt Beaver Scout Leader, 7th Grays, (Young Leader), District Scout Active Support Co- District Beaver Scout Leader, District Executive Member, ordinator, District Nights Away Adviser, District Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Cromwell, Training Adviser, Cambridgeshire Thurrock, Essex John Martin Spence Assistant Group Scout Peter John Westley District Scout Active Support Leader, 124th Nottingham,Training Adviser, District Member, Explorer Scout Leader, Thameside Grand Union, Administrator, City of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Gt. London Middlesex West

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David Attenborough District Scout Active Support Nigel Paul Board Assistant Group Scout Leader, Member, Camp Warden, New Greenwich, County Scout Leader, 1st Wargrave, District Nights Away Adviser, Executive Member, Gt. London South Lodden, Training Adviser, Royal Berkshire Caroline Beatrice Louise Badcock Cub Scout Jacqueline Ann Boden District Secretary, Leader, 80th Reading (2nd Tilehurst), Pang Valley, Rea Valley, Birmingham Royal Berkshire Lance Booth Group Scout Leader, 1st Woodville Laura Jane Baines Group Scout Leader, Barwell, (St Stephens), South Derbyshire, Derbyshire District Appointments Advisory Committee Member, Brenda Boothman Group Executive Member, District Executive Member, District Explorer Scout 1st Cookham, District Scout Active Support Member, Leader, Training Adviser (Admin), Trainer Adviser, District Skills Instructor, Maidenhead, Royal Berkshire Hinckley, Trainer, Leicestershire Martin John Booy District Commissioner George Murray Bald Assistant Cub Scout Leader, (Acting), District Executive Member, Assistant 64th Edinburgh North East (Stockbridge), Edinburgh District Commissioner Scouts, Vale District, North East, South East – Scotland Area Nights Away Adviser, Training Adviser, Malcolm Frances Bale Group Scout Leader, Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Silver Acorn 1st Watchet Sea Scouts, West Somerset, Somerset Jill Wendy Bowman Explorer Scout Leader (Young In recognition of specially Alison Margaret Bamber Explorer Scout Leader, Leader) Blythe, Scout Active Support Member, Solihull South Ribble, Scout Active Support Member, West John Anthony Victor Bowman Assistant Camp distinguished service. Lancashire Warden, Chelmsford and District, Essex Roger Edward Norman Banister District Benjamin John Bradley Assessor for Hillwalking, Commissioner, Training Adviser, Wharfedale, Hampshire The Silver Acorn was first introduced as West Yorkshire Christopher John Bradley Group Chairman, a St George’s Day Award in 1933. It is not Pamela Margaret Banks Cub Scout Leader, 231st (Shiregreen), District Appointment Advisory normally awarded until after at least 13th Northampton (St. Marys Far Cotton), Northampton, Committee Member, District Scout Active Support Northamptonshire Co-ordinator, Sheffield Don, South Yorkshire the Award for Merit has been gained. George Anthony Bannister Assistant District Dr Christopher George Brammer Deputy Chief It is seldom awarded for less than 20 Commissioner, Appointments Secretary, Spen Valley, Commissioner (Region Support) – Scotland, Scotland years’ service. County Appointment Advisory Committee Member, David William Bramston Regional Commissioner, West Yorkshire West Midlands, Headquarters Joseph Barea Assistant Chief Commissioner, Gibraltar Graham Alan Brant District Commissioner, Robin James Abbott District Commissioner, Neil John Barnes Scout Leader, 1st Kirkham and Kingswood, Avon New Forest South, Training Adviser, Hampshire Wesham, Training Adviser, Fylde, West Lancashire Joan Margaret Bridge Cub Scout Leader, David Andrew Adams District Scout Active Lewis William Bathard District Supporter, District Assistant Group Scout Leader, 5th Tower Hamlets (West), Support Member, Duke of Edinburgh Award Training Scout Active Support Manager, Harrow and Wealdstone, East London, Gt. London North East Scout Active Support Unit, National Headquarters, Gt. London Middlesex West David Harry Brotherhood Assistant Scout Assessor for Skiing, Assessor for Rafting (Traditional), Patricia Batten District Appointment Advisory Leader, 4th Mansfield Woodhouse (St Edmunds), Assessor for Power Boating, Assessor for Kayaking Committee Member, District Explorer Scout Leader, District Scout Active Support Member, Mansfield, Open Inland, Assessor for Hillwalking, Assessor Assistant District Commissioner Group Support, Training Adviser, Nottinghamshire for Dinghy Sailing, Assessor for Canoeing Open New Greenwich, Gt. London South Andi David Brown Cub Scout Leader, 9th Greenford John William Baxter Group Executive Member, Inland, Assessor for Climbing (Single Pitch), (Holy Cross), District Cub Scout Leader, Greenford and 4th Barnehurst (St Martin’s), District Scout Active Support District, Gt. London Middlesex West County Nights Away Adviser, Training Adviser, Member, District Chairman, Bexley, Local Training David Brown Assistant Beaver Scout Leader, Trainer, Manager of the Activity Permit Scheme, Manager, Trainer, Gt. London South East 132nd Derby (2nd Chaddesden), District Scout Active Local Training Manager, County Scouter, County Mark Beaumont Scout Leader, Wellington St Matthews Support Member, Derby East, Derbyshire Adviser for Mountain Activities, County Skills (Hull), City of Hull, Humberside John Gavin Brown Camp Warden, Orwell, Instructor, North Yorkshire Laurence Edward Bell Cub Scout Leader, 16th Airedale Camp Warden, Suffolk Helen Alison Adams UK Technical Adviser, (Yeadon Methodist), District Executive Member, District Robert Wallace Brown District Administrator, National Headquarters, Assessor for Canoeing Nights Away Adviser, Shire Oak (Leeds), Central Yorkshire District Chairman, District Appointment Advisory Open Inland, Nottinghamshire, Assessor for Skiing, Peter Robert Bench District Commissioner, District Committee Member, District Scout Active Support Assessor for Rafting (Traditional), Assessor for Scout Active Support Member, Basingstoke West, Member, Blyth Valley, Northumberland Power Boating, Assessor for Kayaking Open Inland, Hampshire Ann Elisabeth Buchan District Scout Active Support Assessor for Canoeing River, Assessor for Canoeing Peter Fothergill Bennett Assistant Cub Scout Member, North Dorset, District Scout Active Support Open Inland, Assessor for Bell Boating, Assessor for Leader, 70th Greenock and District, District Commissioner, Member, Dorchester and West Dorset, Scout Active Kayaking River, Training Adviser, Trainer, County Greenock and District, West – Scotland Support Member, County Member, County Appointment Scouter, County Skills Instructor, County Adviser for Susan Jane Best Beaver Scout Leader, 1st Wyton Advisory Committee Member, Dorset Water Activities, North Yorkshire (RAF) Air Scout Group, District Nights Away Adviser, David Buchan District Scout Active Support Member, Paul Michael Adams Assistant Group Scout Leader, Assistant District Commissioner Beaver Scouts, Cromwell, North Dorset, District Scout Active Support Member, Cub Scout Leader, 2nd Hinckley (St Peters), District Training Adviser, Scout Active Support Co-ordinator, Dorchester and West Dorset, Scout Active Support Executive Member, District Adviser For Shooting, Cambridgeshire Member, Dorset Peter James Betteridge Assistant Scout Leader 10th Maurice Edward Buchan District Scout Active Hinckley, Leicestershire Romsey (Woodley and Crampmoor), District Scout Active Support Member, Thameside Grand Union, Margaret Mary Allan Appointments Secretary, Support Member, Romsey, Hampshire Gt. London Middlesex West Borders, South East – Scotland Phillip Leonard Bicknell District Vice President, John Norman Buckley District Badge Secretary, David Arthur Allen District Scout Active Support Greenford and District, Gt. London Middlesex West District Scout Active Support Member, Lonsdale, Member, Blackpool And District, West Lancashire Alexander Edward Bienkov Group Scout Leader, West Lancashire John Fitzgerald Allwright District Scout Active 10th Royal Eltham, Explorer Scout Leader, New Greenwich, Donald Bullimore District Scout Active Support Support Member, District Treasurer, Ormskirk and Gt. London South Member, Surrey Heath, Surrey District, West Lancashire David Herbert Birkinshaw District Badge Secretary, Sylvia Margaret Bunn District Scout Active Support Colin Michael Clinton Andrews Group District Executive Member, District Nights Away Adviser, Member, Ashford, Kent Scout Leader 1st Poulner, Explorer Scout Leader District Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Andrew John Burchell District Nights Away Adviser, New Forest West, Hampshire Bradford South, West Yorkshire Brighton and Hove, East Sussex scouts.org.uk/magazine 9 Peter Brian Burgess Group Chairman, 2nd Tonbridge Marion Lilian Christmas MBE Scout Active Support Anthony James Cumes District Scout Active Support (Parish Church), Tonbridge, Kent Co-ordinator, Hampshire Manager, District Executive Member, Christchurch and Simon Andrew Burgess BA(Hons) PGCE Ann Clark Queen’s Scout Award Co-ordinator, District, Dorset (Music) Group Scout Leader, 1st St. Mary’s, Trainer, Deputy County Commissioner, Assistant James Cumming District Commissioner, Training District Appointment Advisory Committee Member, County Commissioner International, Assistant Adviser, North Ayrshire and Arran, Trainer, Leeds Templars, Training Adviser, Local Training County Commissioner Cub Scouts, Assistant County South West – Scotland Manager, Central Yorkshire Commissioner Beaver Scouts, Training Adviser, John Reginald Leonard Davies Group Scout Margaret Burnley Cub Scout Leader, 39th Bradford Hereford and Worcester Active Support Co-ordinator, 1st Shanklin, East Wight, South (Southfield Lane Methodist), District Executive Richard Simon Clark District Scout Active Support Isle of Wight Member, Bradford South, West Yorkshire Member, Assistant District Commissioner Group Patricia Irene Davies Group Chairman, David John Burns Assistant Cub Scout Leader, Support, Billericay and Wickford, Scout Active Support 15th Penarth (Owen-Dicks) Elfed Avenue United 104th Edinburgh North East, Edinburgh North East, Member, Essex Church, District Executive Member, Penarth and District, South East – Scotland Barbara Pauline Colby District Appointment Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Kathleen Elizabeth Burrell Group Executive Advisory Committee Member, Yeovil and District, Carolyn Jane Davis Group Scout Leader, 4th Rushden Member, Farsley, District Explorer Scout Commissioner, Somerset (Whitefriars), District Executive Member, Training District Explorer Scout Administrator, West Leeds, Patricia Ann Coles Group Scout Leader, 1st Finedon, Adviser, District Appointment Advisory Committee Training Adviser, Central Yorkshire District Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Member, Nene Valley, Training Adviser, Northamptonshire Rosemary Jane Burrell Assistant Beaver Scout Wellingborough, Scout Active Support Member, Keith Ian Davis Cub Scout Leader, 1st Woodham Leader, 1st North Walsham, North East Norfolk, District Scout Active Support Co-ordinator, Northamptonshire Ferrers, District Cub Scout Leader, Chelmsford and Scout Active Support Member, Southern Norwich, Norfolk Michael Allan Cook District Scout Active Support District, Essex David Malcolm Burrows Group Scout Leader, Member, Sutton Coldfield East, Birmingham Christine Ann Dawson Group Treasurer, 1st Great Sutton, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Cheshire Alan Montague Victor Cooke Group Scout 11th Spen Valley Hunsworth, Spen Valley, West Yorkshire Tony Alan Butler District Scout Active Support Leader, 2nd Hook (St Paul’s), Royal Kingston, James Dawson District Scout Leader, Deputy District Member, National Catholic Scout Fellowship, National Gt. London South West Commissioner, Ellesmere, Gt. Manchester West Headquarters, Assistant Scout Leader, 244th Birmingham Andrew James Cooper Beaver Scout Leader, Peter William Dawson Group Scout Leader, (Holy Name), Tame Valley Birmingham, Birmingham 38th Rossendale, Rossendale Valley, East Lancashire 1st Mirfield, District Executive Member, District Scout Janice Margaret Butterworth Group Scout Richard Charles Cooper District Scout Active Active Support Member, Heavy Woollen, West Yorkshire Leader, 2nd Ramsbottom (St Paul’s C.E), Assistant Support Member, South East Europe Scout Active Christopher Mark Denham Group Scout Leader, District Commissioner Beaver Scouts, Ramsbottom, Support Unit (SEENet), District Scout Active Support 6th Brighton (St Wilfrids), Deputy District Commissioner, Gt. Manchester North Member, Southern Stars UK Scout Active Support Unit, Brighton and Hove, Local Training Manager, East Sussex Gillian Margaret Caine Group Scout Leader, 1st District Scout Active Support Member, 2nd Gilwell Alison Mary Denyer Assistant Scout Leader, 6th Spen Valley, Training Adviser, Spen Valley, West Yorkshire Park Active Support Unit, National Headquarters, Brighton (St Wilfrids), Assistant District Commissioner Alexander Clive Carr County Adviser for Climbing, District Explorer Scout Leader, Petworth and Scouts, Brighton and Hove, District Scout Active Support Buckinghamshire Pulborough, Assistant County Commissioner Member, Eastbourne and District, East Sussex Janet Cartwright Assistant Scout Leader, International, West Sussex Nicholas Sinclair Dewdney Scout Leader, 22nd Huddersfield (Shelley), Huddersfield South East, Richard Lawrence Coppock Assistant County 12th Hampstead St Paul’s School, District Nights Away County Skills Instructor, West Yorkshire Commissioner International, Leicestershire Adviser, Camden City and Islington District, Deputy Russell Catlow Group Scout Leader, 5th Blackpool, Graham Alan Cotgreave Assistant Cub Scout County Commissioner, Trainer, Gt. London North District Scout Active Support Member, District Executive Leader, 17th Barrow-in-Furness (St Perrans), District John David Dighton Group Scout Leader, Member, Blackpool and District, West Lancashire Nights Away Adviser, South West Lakes, Cumbria 2nd Stanford-le-Hope, District Skills Instructor, David Miles Chadwick Group Skills Instructor, Ian Cotterill Cub Scout Leader, 64th Nottingham, Stanford-le-Hope and District, Essex 1st Sandle Heath New Forest West, Assessor for Dinghy City of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Sharon Angela Donohoe Scout Leader, Sailing, Assessor for Mine Exploration, Assessor for Allen Cowburn Assistant Cub Scout Leader, 2nd Pembroke (Castle), Pembrokeshire District, Power Boating, Assessor for Caving, Hampshire 26th Halifax (Bradshaw St Johns), Halifax, West Yorkshire Assistant Area Commissioner Scouts, Pembrokeshire Peter Chambers MBE District Scout Active Support Gordon Cowie Group Scout Leader, 1st Gullane, Jason Ormerod Dugdale District Commissioner, Member, Network Russia, National Headquarters, East Lothian, South East – Scotland Exeter, Training Adviser, Devon District Treasurer, District Nights Away Adviser, Sheffield Daniele Louise Cox Cub Scout Leader, Genevieve Martha Dunbar Cub Scout Leader, Hallam, District Scout Active Support Member, Sheffield 1st Hertford Heath, District Nights Away Adviser, 28th Croydon Our Lady of the Annunciation, District Sheaf, Training Adviser, Trainer, South Yorkshire Hertford, Hertfordshire Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Croydon, Anne Elizabeth Chapman District Secretary, John Charles Cox District Chairman, Gt. London South West District Scout Active Support Co-ordinator, Wiltshire West, Wiltshire Malcolm Dyer Assistant Group Scout Leader, Appointments Secretary, District Scout Active Support Mary Elaine Coyte Assistant District Commissioner 46th Northampton (Overstone), Training Adviser, Member, Network Russia, National Headquarters, District Beaver Scouts, Petersfield, Hampshire Northampton, Northamptonshire Scout Active Support Member, Appointments Secretary, Sonia Clare Crabb Training Adviser Admin, Michael Richard Dyer Scout Leader, 6th Tynemouth Bradford North, Training Adviser, Aire Valley, Local Training District Scout Active Support Member, Meon Valley, (Holy Saviour’s), Tynemouth, Northumberland Manager, Local Training Administrator, West Yorkshire Training Adviser Admin, Training Adviser, Hampshire John Henry Dymond Group Scout Leader, Lawrence Christopher Chapman District Explorer Rupert Backhouse Crisp JP Group Treasurer, 25th Forth Valley (Balfron), Training Adviser, Scout Commissioner, Lowestoft, Training Adviser, 1st Blofield and Brundall, District Appointments Stirling and Trossachs, Forth – Scotland Assessor for Kayaking Sea, Assessor for Canoeing Chairman, Eastern Norwich, Norfolk Andrew William Edmonds District Chairman, Open Inland, Suffolk John Steven Cronin Group Chairman, Wimbledon and Wandle, Gt. London South West Christine Charlton Group Scout Leader, 1st Doddington, Fenland, Cambridgeshire, Brian Leslie Edwards Scout Sectional Assistant, 46th Ormskirk (Mawdesley), District Cub Scout Leader, Group Scout Leader (Acting), 1st City of London Chadwell St Mary, Assistant Camp Warden, District Scout District Executive Member, District Appointments Lord Mayor’s Own, District Commissioner, District Active Support Member, Thurrock, Essex Advisory Committee Member, Ormskirk And District, Nights Away Adviser, Camden City and Islington, Michael David Edwards Assistant Scout Leader, Local Training Manager, Trainer, West Lancashire District Commissioner, Haringey, Local Training Cookridge Village, District Nights Away Adviser, David Edgar Charlton Group Executive Member, Manager, Trainer, Gt. London North Shire Oak (Leeds), Central Yorkshire 5th Whitley Bay (St. George’s) 1st Cullercoats, Whitley Geoffrey William Crookes Assistant Cub Patricia Marilyn Edwards Assistant Beaver Scout Bay and District, County Chairman, Northumberland Scout Leader, 7th Peterborough Helpston Village, Leader, 11th Blackpool Raikes Parade Methodist, District Donald Cheyne Scout Leader, 2nd Rhiwbina, Medehamstede, Cambridgeshire Scout Active Support Member, Training Adviser, District Afon, Area Adviser for Mountain Activities, Cardiff and Alistair John Cubbin District Commissioner, Nights Away Adviser, Assistant District Commissioner Vale of Glamorgan Wallasey, Merseyside Beaver Scouts, Blackpool and District, West Lancashire

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Alison Jane Eggitt Cub Scout Leader, 1st Old Malden David Sidney Fricker District Executive Member, Michael Grime District Scout Active Support St John the Baptist, District Cub Scout Leader, District Supporter, Southwark District, Gt. London South Member, National Catholic Scout Fellowship, National Royal Kingston, Gt. London South West Anthony Galliano Branch Member, Gibraltar Headquarters, Group Scout Leader, Bold Venture Park, Anthony Dennis Elgar District Nights Away Adviser, Eileen Lillian Maud Galling Assistant Cub Scout District Nights Away Adviser, District Secretary (Acting), Assistant District Commissioner Cub Scouts, District Leader, Central Dorchester, District Scout Active Support Appointments Secretary, District Commissioner, Darwen, Executive Member, East Wight, County Adviser for Member, Dorchester and West Dorset, Dorset County Scouter, East Lancashire Shooting, Isle of Wight Barbara Dorothy Garner District Commissioner, Steven Gurmin Group Scout Leader, 169th Carole Mary Ellis District Scout Active Support Southgate, Training Adviser, Trainer, Gt. London North Birmingham West (1st Quinton), Rea Valley, Birmingham Member, Woodlands, Buckinghamshire Elizabeth Garvie Assistant Cub Scout Leader, Victor Hadley Group President, Dewsbury West Joan Winifred Eminson Group Scout Leader, 6th West Lothian (Broxburn and Uphall), West Lothian, (St Saviours), Heavy Woollen, West Yorkshire 25th Lewisham North, Lewisham District, Forth – Scotland Clive Crompton Hailey Group Scout Leader, Gt. London South Antony Mark Garvin Group Scout Leader, 4th East Barnet (Sea Scouts), Training Adviser, Kathleen Evans Cub Scout Leader, 79th Reading 1st Mylor, Falmouth and District, Assistant County Barnet Borough, Gt. London North Norcot and Kentwood, District Scout Active Support Commissioner Scouts, Cornwall John David Harris Group Scout Leader, Member, District Appointment Advisory Committee Kathleen Mary Geeves Cub Scout Leader, 17th Lewisham North (3rd Lee Good Shepherd), Member, Pang Valley, Training Adviser, Royal Berkshire 16th Wellingborough (St Barnabas), District Lewisham District, Gt. London South Christopher Michael Eyre Group Scout Leader, Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Amanda Elise Margaret Harrison Group Scout 16th Sheffield (Westbourne), Sheffield Hallam, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire Leader, 37th Chingford (SS Peter and Paul), District Scout South Yorkshire Myra Ethel George Group Secretary, 1st Slough, Active Support Member, Training Adviser, Chingford, Simon Andrew Fairless Explorer Scout Leader, Slough, Royal Berkshire Trainer, Gt. London North East District Explorer Scout Commissioner, Torfaen, Gwent Frances Gibbs District Scout Active Support Member, Ieuan Paul Havard Scout Leader, 94th Penarth Kenneth Robert Falconer Assistant Scout Leader, Eastbourne and District, Trainer, Safeguarding Awareness Guide and Scout Group, Penarth and District, Area Skills 28th Braid, Braid, Scout Active Support Member – Co-ordinator, East Sussex Instructor, Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Scotland, South East – Scotland Suzanne Elizabeth Gidlow Assistant Cub Scout Nicola Sian Havard Group Scout Leader, 94th Susan Elizabeth Farrar Group Scout Leader, Leader, 23rd South West Cheshire (2nd Wheelock), Penarth Guide and Scout Group, District Appointments 17th Chelmsford Salvation Army, Training Adviser, South West Cheshire, Cheshire Advisory Committee Member, Penarth And District, District Scout Active Support Member, Chelmsford James Peter David Gilbert Assistant Scout Leader, Training Adviser, Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan and District, Essex 76th Sheffield (St Peter’s) Ellesmere, Sheffield Don, June Ann Heathcote Group Scout Leader, Elizabeth Wallace Hendry Findlay Group Scout South Yorkshire 1st Chase Terrace, District Executive Member, Leader, 24th Glasgow (Bearsden), District Nights Away Valerie Avis Gleave Assistant Beaver Scout Leader, District Appointment Advisory Committee Adviser, Great Western, Clyde – Scotland 24th Edmonton, Enfield, Gt. London North Member, Assistant District Commissioner, District Peter Frederick Fitzgerald Assistant District Keith Ernest Gleen Assistant Group Scout Leader, Nights Away Adviser, Cannock Chase, Training Commissioner, Hertford, Hertfordshire 1st Martlesham, Deben, Deputy County Commissioner, Adviser, Staffordshire Carole Louise Fleming Assistant Cub Scout Leader, Trainer, Training Adviser, Suffolk Susan Jane Hedges Cub Scout Leader, Assistant 1st Hoveton and Roxham, Training Adviser, North East Elizabeth Janet Godden Assistant Scout Leader, Group Scout Leader, Group Scout Leader (Acting), Norfolk, Norfolk 2nd Romford, Assistant District Commissioner Scouts, 7th Bramshill (Hook), District Appointment Advisory Stuart Andrew Fletcher Cub Scout Leader, Training Adviser, District Scout Active Support Member, Committee Member, Assistant District Commissioner 1st Marple Scouts, Goyt, Gt. Manchester East Romford, Gt. London North East Cub Scouts, Bramshill, Hampshire David Richard Floyd District Explorer Scout Richard Ian Golding Group Scout Leader, Gordon Henshaw District Vice President, Commissioner, District Nights Away Adviser, 3rd Kingston (All Saint’s), Royal Kingston, Flintshire, Clwyd District Executive Member, Bexley, Gt. London South East Training Adviser, Gt. London South West Ian Charles Drummond Hill District Scout Active Christine Ford Group Scout Leader, 94th Lanarkshire Sandra Goode Assistant Cub Scout Leader, Support Co-ordinator, Thameside Grand Union, (9th Coatbridge), Calder, Clyde – Scotland Group Executive Member, Boyne Hill, Maidenhead, Gt. London Middlesex West Mary Elizabeth Ford Cub Scout Leader, Royal Berkshire Anne Marie Hilton District Scout Active 1st Bethersden, Ashford, Kent Paul Andrew Goon Training Adviser, District Support Member, Derby South, Scout Active Support Rosemary Ann Elizabeth Forde Specialist Adviser Commissioner, Cole Valley South, Birmingham Member, Derbyshire (Adult Training), National Headquarters, Headquarters Brenda Graham District Secretary, Peter Brinsley Hilton Group Treasurer, 35th Derby Commissioner Adult Training, Northern Ireland, Beaver District Appointment Advisory Committee Member, (Markeaton), Derby East, District Scout Active Support Scout Leader, 1st Cladagh, Fermanagh, County Training Pontefract and Castleford, Central Yorkshire Member, District Supporter, Derby South, Derbyshire Manager, County Treasurer, County Administrator, Gillian Grainger Assistant Scout Leader, Peter William Hobson District Scout Active Support County Fermanagh 1st Weatherden and Haughley, Stowmarket, Co-ordinator, Derby East, Derbyshire Pamela Forshaw District Scout Active Support Training Adviser, Suffolk Valerie Anne Hodgson County Training Manager, Member, 2nd Gilwell Park Active Support Unit, National Jenifer Carol Green Beaver Scout Leader, Training Adviser, Trainer, Northumberland Headquarters, District Treasurer, District Appointment 1st Shevington (Wigan), Wigan and District, Raymond Hollands Scout Active Support Advisory Committee Member, District Scout Active Gt. Manchester West Member, County Vice President, County Executive Support Member, Pontefract and Castleford, Activity John Greenhalgh Group Scout Leader, 19th Bolton Member, Norfolk Centre Staff, Central Yorkshire West (Bolton School), District Nights Away Adviser, Jeremy Stuart Holmes District Scout Active Edna May Fox Assistant Beaver Scout Leader, District Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Support Member, UK Kandersteg Network-Scout Orsett and Bulphan, Thurrock, Essex Bolton West, Gt. Manchester North Active Support Unit, National Headquarters, Scout Richard William Fox District Scout Active Dr Howard Greenwood BSC (Hons) PHD Leader, 180th Sheffield (Holy Trinity Milhouses), Support Member, Scouts of the World Scout Active CCHEM MRSC Group Scout Leader (Acting), Scout Sheffield Hallam, South Yorkshire Support Unit, National Headquarters, District Executive Leader Warton (St Oswald’s), District Executive Member, Pauline Carol Holmes Group Scout Leader, Member, District Scout Active Support Manager, Lonsdale, West Lancashire 1st Rugeley, District Cub Scout Leader, District Appointment Advisory Committee Member, David Griffiths District Scout Active Support District Appointments Advisory Committee Member, Greenford and District, Gt. London Middlesex West Member, City of Portsmouth, Hampshire, District Active District Scout Active Support Member, District John Richard Foxwell Group Sectional Assistant, Support Member, Brownsea Island, District Scout Active Nights Away Adviser, Cannock Chase, Training 7th Hanwell (St Thomas’), District Commissioner Support Member, Woodhouse Park Active Support Unit, Adviser, Staffordshire (Acting), Ealing and Hanwell, Gt. London Middlesex West National Headquarters Richard John Skerrett Holmes Scout Active Neil Kingsley Freeman Group Scout Leader, David Thomas Griffiths District Scout Active Support Member, Gt. London North, District Scout Active 1st Send (St Mary’s), District Scout Active Support Support Member, Deep Sea Scouts and Admiral Lord Support Member, District Treasurer, North East Wiltshire, Member, Woking, Surrey Nelson Scout Active Support Unit, National Headquarters Scout Active Support Member, Wiltshire scouts.org.uk/magazine 11 Robert Michael Hopkins Scout Leader, 15th Kathleen Barbara Lakin Group Scout Leader, Ian McGregor Assistant Group Scout Leader, 7th West Chelmsford (St Johns), Chelmsford and District, Essex 1st Olton, Cole, Scout Active Support Member, Solihull Lothian (Brucefield), West Lothian, Forth – Scotland Beverley Jayne Howard Group Scout Leader, Ian Lavens Assistant District Commissioner Beaver Sidney George McIlroy Assistant Scout Leader, 46th Bradford North, Assistant District Commissioner Scouts, District Appointment Advisory Committee 1st Dunbarton, Dunbartonshire, West – Scotland Cub Scouts, Bradford North, West Yorkshire Member, Bablake, City of Coventry Helen Elizabeth Medland Assistant Group Scout John Edger Hudson (deceased) Assistant Scout Susan Leonard Cub Scout Leader, 4th Worsley (Christ Leader, 27th Croydon (St Mildreds), Croydon, Gt. Leader, 1st St Leonards Forest, Horsham Weald, Assessor The King), Assistant District Commissioner Cub Scouts, London South West for Kayaking Open Inland, Assessor for Kayaking Sea, District Commissioner, Ellesmere, Campsite Management Graham John Meikle JP District Media Development West Sussex Committee Member, Gt. Manchester West Manager, Axe, County Appointments Secretary, Scout Robert Ian Humphrey Training Adviser, Stephen Graham Lewis Scout Active Support Member, Active Support Member, County Executive Committee Farnham, Surrey Wales, Explorer Scout Leader, CRAI, Mid Glamorgan Member, County Appointments Chairman, Avon Brian James Huntley Group Scout Leader, William Linley Group Chairman, 53rd Lanarkshire Janette Mellor Deputy District Commissioner, 4th Heston, District Scout Active Support Member, (1st East Kilbride), Training Adviser, Strathcalder, Sheffield Don, Local Training Administrator, Thameside Grand Union, Gt. London Middlesex West Clyde – Scotland Training Adviser, South Yorkshire Tony Hurst Cub Scout Leader, 112th Leicester Keith Lofthouse Assistant Scout Leader, Anthony Albert Edward Mills Group Scout Leader, Little Hill Wigston Magna, Cub Scout Leader, 2nd Ramsbottom (St Paul’s C.E), Ramsbottom, 72nd Lambeth St John’s School Waterloo, District Nights 41st Leicester (St. James The Great), Training Adviser, Gt. Manchester North Away Adviser, Lambeth, Gt. London South District Scout Active Support Member, Leicester Francis Joseph Loveder Assistant Explorer Diana Betty Mills Assistant Cub Scout Leader, South East, Leicestershire Scout Leader, Pang Valley, Royal Berkshire 6th Ashford, Ashford, Kent Robert Hussey Deputy District Commissioner, Jennifer Ann Lowe District Scout Active Support Dorothy Ann Minchin District Commissioner, Bristol South, Avon Co-ordinator, Thameside Grand Union, Gt. London South East Berkshire, Training Adviser, Royal Berkshire Richard William Hyland JP District Scout Active Middlesex West David Scott Mitchell Group Scout Leader, Support Member, Assistant District Commissioner Adult Linda Gladys Lythaby Group Sectional Assistant, 7th Stirling (Beechwood), Training Adviser, Stirling and Support, Spitfire, Local Training Manager, Birmingham Group Executive Member, 3rd North Watford Trossachs, Forth – Scotland Linda Margaret Inglis Assistant Cub Scout Leader, (1st Abbotts Langley) Watford North, Hertfordshire Michael Thomas Mobbs Group Scout Leader 10th Craigalmond, Training Adviser, Craigalmond, Donald Cowie MacDonald District Chairman, (Acting), Scout Leader, 63rd Reading (St Michael’s), South East – Scotland District Executive Member, Lodden, Royal Berkshire Assistant District Commissioner Scouts, District Scout Noel Alexander Irwin District Commissioner, Charles William MacIntosh Scout Leader, Active Support Member, Pang Valley, Royal Berkshire Lisburn And District, County Antrim 87th Craigalmond (Granton Seaway), Craigalmond, Angela Jeannette Moore Scout Leader, 1st Edgehill Carol Anne James Area Appointments Chairman, South East – Scotland and Torridge, Explorer Scout Leader (Young Leader), Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Pauline Maddocks Cub Scout Leader, 1st Southgate, Torridge, Trainer, Training Adviser, Devon Andrew Jennings Assistant Group Scout Leader, District Supporter, Crawley, West Sussex Jane Anstee Moore Beaver Scout Leader, Group Administrator, 46th Scarborough (Westborough), Simon John Maddocks Group Treasurer, 1st Twyford, District Beaver Scout Leader, Lodden, Local Assistant District Commissioner Group Support, 1st Southgate, District Treasurer, Crawley, West Sussex Training Administrator, Training Adviser, Royal Berkshire Scarborough and District, Local Training Administrator, Carol Anne Majury Group Scout Leader, Stephen Albert Charles Moore District Adviser for Trainer, Training Adviser, Safeguarding Awareness 110th Belfast (St Bernadette), South East Belfast, Belfast Water Activities, Hitchen South, Assessor for Kayaking Co-ordinator, North Yorkshire John Arthur Herbert Marsden Group Supporter, Sea, Assessor for Kayaking River, Assessor for Kayaking Terence Malcolm Jennings Appointments 1st Horsell, District Scout Active Support Member, Open Inland, Assessor for Canoeing Sea, Assessor Secretary, District Chairman, Dronfield, Derbyshire Woking, Surrey for Canoing River, Assessor for Rafting (Traditional), Sylvia Marilyn Elizabeth Johns District Cub Scout Miriam Irene Marshall District Appointment Assessor for Canoeing Open Inland, County Boat Leader, District Scout Active Support Member, Blackpool Advisory Committee Member, District Scout Active Inspector, Scout Active Support Member, Hampshire and District, West Lancashire Support Member, Deep Sea Scouts, National Gillian Morgan Assistant Cub Scout Leader, Ian Christopher Johnson Scout Leader, 1st Hartford Headquarters 32nd Swansea (Rhyddings Park), Swansea and Gower, (Northwich), Mid Cheshire, Cheshire Nicholas James Mason County Nights Away Glamorgan West Stella Ann Johnstone District Appointments Adviser, Trainer, Queen’s Scout Award Co-ordinator, Adrian Charles Mori Scout Leader, 7th Hitchen Chairman, Assistant District Commissioner Group Assistant County Commissioner Explorer Scouts, South (Bursledon) Hitchen South, District Adviser for Support, District Scout Active Support Member, Hereford and Worcester Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Hitchen North, Training District Appointment Advisory Committee Christopher John Matthews District Chairman, Adviser, Hampshire Member, District Executive Member, Ely, Training Wolds and Coast, Humberside Mavis Middleton Morris Cub Scout Leader, Adviser, Cambridgeshire Carol Ruth Galbraith McCallum Group Scout 1st Shevington (Wigan), Wigan and District, Glyn Jones District Commissioner, Leader, 32nd Greenock and District, District Badge Gt. Manchester West Chesterfield, Derbyshire Secretary, Training Adviser, Greenock and District, Edward Alexander Morrow Group Scout Leader, Kenneth William Edmund Jowett Scout Leader, West – Scotland 53rd Lanarkshire (1st East Kilbride), Training Adviser, 13th Erith (Christ Church), Bexley, Gt. London South East Charlotte Dorothy McCarthy Cub Scout Leader, Strathcalder, Clyde – Scotland Andrew John Kemp Assistant Scout Leader, Assistant Group Scout Leader, 1st Holdgate-York, Stephen John Morton District Chairman, District 1st Ockenden, Thurrock, Essex Assistant District Commissioner Cub Scouts, York Ebor, Scout Active Support Manager, UK Arab Scout Region Allen Kerr District President, Edinburgh North East, Training Adviser, North Yorkshire Scout Active Support Unit, District Scout Active Support South East – Scotland Gillian Anne McDonald Group Scout Leader, Member, SE Europe Scout Active Support Unit (SEENet), Christopher John King District Explorer Scout Broadstone, Poole, Dorset National Headquarters Volunteer, National Headquarters, Commissioner, Training Adviser, Letchworth and Margaret Mary Hughes McDowall Deputy District Commissioner, Chorley, Assistant County Baldock, Hertfordshire Group Scout Leader, 13th Medway (St Michaels Commissioner International, County Member, W Lancs Linda Mary Kirby Cub Scout Leader, 42nd Ormskirk Chatham), Medway Towns, Kent, District Scout Andrew David Musk BSC (Hons) District ( Skelmersdale St Paul’s), District Cub Scout Leader, Active Support Manager, National Catholic Scout Occassional Helper, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Ormskirk and District, West Lancashire Fellowship, National Headquarters Cub Scout Leader, S.S. Peter and Paul, Assistant District Susan Sebbie Klesel Group Scout Leader, Donald Patrick McEvoy National Headquarters Commissioner Cub Scouts, Deputy District Commissioner, 4th Hounslow, Thameside Grand Union, Gt. London Volunteer, National Headquarters, Group Scout Leader, Godalming, Surrey Middlesex West 12th Bangor, North Down, County Down John Frederick Myers District Secretary, Yeovil and Darron Knibbs Explorer Scout Leader, CRAI, David Frederick Duncan McGregor Group District, Training Adviser, Somerset Mid Glamorgan Scout Leader, 12th Eastleigh (Bishops Stoke), District Robert Meikle Naysmith Group Scout Leader, Simon Ananda Kularatne District Scout Active Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Eastleigh 66th Edinburgh North East (Charlotte Chapel), Edinburgh Support Member, Blackpool and District, West Lancashire and District, Hampshire North East, South East – Scotland

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Linda Jane Neale Specialist Adviser (Adult Training), Kathryn Elizabeth Quinn Deputy District Gillian Alexandra Root Group Scout Active National Headquarters, Assistant Chief Commissioner Commissioner, District Scout Active Support Manager, Support Member, 1st Stanford-le-Hope, Training Adviser, Wales (Adult Training), Training Administrator, Training Adviser, Huddersfield North, West Yorkshire District Scout Leader, Stanford-le-Hope And District, Area Commissioner, Training Adviser, Trainer, Anthony Charles Martin Racher District Executive Local Training Manager, Essex Snowdonia and Anglesey Member, District Scout Active Support Co-ordinator, Michael John Rose Scout Active Support Manager, Harrow and Wealdstone, Gt. London Middlesex West Training Adviser, County Adviser For Duke of Edinburgh’s Brenda Dorothy Nettles District Scout Active Anthony John Railton Group Scout Leader Award, Wiltshire Support Member, Sutton Coldfield East, Birmingham Stakeford, District Appointment Advisory Committee Anthony Ross Group Scout Leader, 45th Nottingham Alan Henry Newman Scout Leader, 4th Poplar Member, Wansbeck, Northumberland (Sherriff’s Own), District Nights Away Adviser, City of (Ss Mary and Joseph), District Scout Active Support Susan Mary Raine Scout Leader, 44th Bury Nottingham, Training Adviser, Nottinghamshire Member, East London, Gt. London North East (R.O.B.O.T.), Bury, Gt. Manchester North Susan Lesley Ross BA CA Group Scout Leader, John William Nimmo Group Scout Leader, Jane Ramage Scout Active Support Member – 26th Craigalmond (Craigsbank), District Scout Active 2nd Haddington, East Lothian, South East – Scotland Scotland, Regional Secretary – Scotland, Support Member, Training Adviser, Craigalmond, Lynnette Elizabeth Norris Group Scout Leader, South East – Scotland South East – Scotland Assistant Cub Scout Leader, 8th Aldershot Church of the Jacqueline Anne Rampall Group Scout Leader, Jeremy Brian Rowe District Commissioner, Ascension, Blackwater Valley, Training Adviser, Hampshire 1st St Lawrence in Thanet, Thanet, Kent Training Adviser, Penwith And Isles of Scilly, Cornwall Deborah Christine Ryan District Scout Active Nigel D Norris MBE Group Scout Leader, 27th Jeremy Leigh Ray District Scout Active Support Member, Cardiff East and South, Scout Active Support Support Member, UK Kandersteg Network – Scout Active Plymouth (Compton Methodist Church), Plymouth, Member, Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Support Unit, National Headquarters, Cub Scout Leader Training Adviser, Devon Andrew Allen Redhead Deputy Island 2nd Bengeo, Assistant District Commissioner Cub Scouts, Joseph Oglesby Group Scout Leader, 61st Sheffield Commissioner, Bailiwick of Guernsey Hertford, Hertfordshire (Wincobank), District Scout Active Support Member, Philip Christopher Reed Group Scout Leader, John Francis Salisbury Cub Scout Leader, 1st Sheffield Don, South Yorkshire 1st Great Glen, District Appointment Advisory Committee Middleton (St Leonards), Middleton, Gt. Manchester North Peter Daniel Oliver Trainer, Deputy County Member, Market Harborough, Leicestershire Dorothy Maisie Salmon District Badge Commissioner, Merseyside David Clement Reid Group Treasurer, Secretary, District Scout Active Support Member, Irene Elizabeth Orford District Commissioner (Acting), 1st Helensburgh, District Skills Instructor, Dunbartonshire, Hatfield Forest, Essex East Grinstead, County Commissioner, West Sussex West – Scotland Trefor Miles Salter District Scout Leader, Hertford, John Melvin Owen Group Supporter, Cestrian, District Paul Barry Remblance Assistant Scout Leader, Hertfordshire 1st Lavenham, Appointments Secretary, Assistant District David Ivor Sands Campsite Management Committee Scout Active Support Member, Chester and District, Cheshire Commissioner, Sudbury, Training Adviser, Suffolk Member, Watford North, Hertfordshire Andrew Papka Group Chairman, 76th Sheffield Nigel Anthony Riordan Scout Leader, Anthony Edward Sangster Area Chairman, (St Peter’s) Ellesmere, Assistant District Commissioner 1st Hammersmith, District Executive Member, Pembrokeshire Cub Scouts, District Scout Active Support Member, District Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Matthew Brett Savage Assistant Scout Leader, Group Sheffield Don, Training Adviser, South Yorkshire West London, Gt. London Middlesex West Scout Leader, 10th Feltham, District Nights Away Adviser, Ann Parker Assistant Scout Leader, 26th Picton Peter Archibald Dunlop Ritchie Group Sectional Thameside Grand Union, Gt. London Middlesex West (Childwall), Liverpool South, Merseyside Assistant, Group Chairman, 28th Glasgow Giffnock, Richard John Scruby Group Scout Leader, East Tilbury, Marion Dorothy Parker District Scout Active Eastwood, Clyde – Scotland Thurrock, Essex Support Member, District Appointment Advisory Rhona Mairi Rutherford Robb Cub Scout Leader, Patricia Sharp Assistant District Commissioner Group Committee Member, Adur Valley, West Sussex 28th Glasgow Giffnock, Training Adviser, Eastwood, Support, Training Adviser, Bromley, Gt. London South East Lynn Diana Peck District Appointments Advisory Clyde – Scotland Robin Henry Sharpe MA (Hons) District Scout Simon George Main Robb District Explorer Active Support Co-ordinator, Wolds and Coast, Committee Member, Chingford, Gt. London North East Scout Commissioner, District Nights Away Adviser, Humberside Shirley Patricia Pecover Assistant District Eastwood, Clyde – Scotland Peter Robert Shattock Group Secretary, Commissioner Special Needs, District Appointment Bryan Roberts Group Supporter, 1st Milford, Group Supporter, 3rd Hertford, Hertford, Hertfordshire Advisory Committee Member, Training Adviser, Bromley, Godalming, Surrey David Arvin Shaw District Scout Active Support Gt. London South East Avril Ann Robertson Cub Scout Leader, Member, Brownsea Island, Deep Sea Scouts, Brian Pendlebury Group Scout Leader, 88th Forth Valley (Braehead), Training Adviser, National Headquarters, Scout Leader, 12th Windsor, 37th Blackpool (St Paul’s), Blackpool and District, Stirling and Trossachs, Forth – Scotland District Appointments Advisory Committee Member, West Lancashire Colin Dick Robertson Scout Leader, 4th/6th Windsor and Eton, Training Adviser, Royal Berkshire Stephen Graham Peters Scout Leader, 1st Norbreck, Forth Valley, Stirling and Trossachs, Deputy Regional John Kenneth Shaw Scout Active Support Member, Training Adviser, Blackpool and District, West Lancashire Commissioner – Scotland, Regional Adviser International Gt. Manchester West Karen Shenton Group Secretary, 80th Reading Andrew Paul Pevy District Commissioner, District – Scotland, Forth – Scotland Kenneth John Alexander Robertson Explorer (2nd Tilehurst), Appointments Secretary, District Scout Active Support Member, South Berkshire, Scout Leader, Eastwood, Deputy Chief Commissioner Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Royal Berkshire (Programme) Scotland, Scottish Headquarters, Scotland District Scout Active Support Member, Pang Valley, Simon Douglas Ian Pickett BSc (Hons) Adrian John Robinson District Appointment Training Adviser, Royal Berkshire District Commissioner, Pang Valley, Training Adviser, Advisory Committee Member, District Executive Nicholas Shepherd Scout Active Support Member, Royal Berkshire Member, District Scout Active Support Manager, Trainer, Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan James Edwin Pothecary Group Treasurer, Lichfield, Staffordshire Ronald Albert Shepherd Group Supporter, 3rd Hanworth, Thameside Grand Union, Gt. London Alan Gordon Robinson Assistant Cub Scout Leader, Group Vice Chairman, 14th Bromley, Bromley, Middlesex West 2/88th Manchester (2nd Didsbury), Assistant District Gt. London South East William Peter Pretty District Explorer Scout Leader, Commissioner Cub Scouts, District Nights Away Adviser, Catherine Ann Shone Group Scout Leader, Slough, County Nights Away Adviser, Royal Berkshire District Appointment Advisory Committee Member, 30th Brighton (2nd Patcham), Training Adviser, Manchester South, Training Adviser, Gt. Manchester East Brighton and Hove, East Sussex Ian Christopher Pugh District Executive Member, Brian Leonard Robinson Assistant Scout Leader, Paul Graham Skilton Group Scout Leader, 2nd Northampton, Northamptonshire Penistone Scout Group (17th Barnsley), Barnsley, County Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire District, Area Appointment Pamela Grace Puxty Group Executive Member, Training Manager, Trainer, South Yorkshire Advisory Committee Member, Pembrokeshire St Paul’s-Maidstone, District Appointment Advisory Samuel Frank Robinson BSc ARCS Paul Michael Skipper Assistant Group Scout Committee Member, Maidstone East, Kent Group Treasurer, Group Executive Member, Leader, 87th Birmingham (Bierton), Spitfire, Barbara Quinn District Badge Secretary, District Scout 1st Southport (Ainsdale), District Treasurer, Southport, Birmingham, Scout Active Support Member, Camp Active Support Member, South Ribble, West Lancashire County Treasurer, Merseyside Warden, Warwickshire scouts.org.uk/magazine 13 Colin Fred Smith District Secretary, District Stewart Thompson District Appointments Chairman, David Eric White Scout Leader, 1st Roffey, Scout Active Support Member, Shire Oak (Leeds), District Executive Member, Wigan and District, Gt. Horsham Weald, West Sussex Central Yorkshire Manchester West Douglas James Whitehead Assistant Group Scout David Ryder Smith Scout Leader, 3rd Altrincham Susan Tichener Group Secretary, 1st Halton Leader, 15th Edinburgh North East (5th Portobella), District (Grammar School), Altrincham and District, (RAF) Scout Group, District Secretary, Appointments Explorer Scout Leader, Edinburgh North East, South East Gt. Manchester West Secretary, District Scout Active Support Member, – Scotland Penelope Sowter Assistant Beaver Scout Leader, Vale of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire Keith Whitham BSc (Hons) Assistant Group Scout 132nd Derby (2nd Chaddersden), District Executive John Richard Tonge Group Scout Leader, Leader, 9th Airedale, District Scout Active Support Member, Member, District Scout Active Support Member, 127th Oldham (St Thomas Moorside Church), District Shire Oak (Leeds), Training Adviser, Central Yorkshire Derby East, Derbyshire Appointments Chairman, District Executive Member, Derek Bryan Whittaker Group Scout Leader, 1st Stephen David Spreckley Scout Leader, Oldham, County Executive Member, Local Training Littlebourne, Canterbury Whitstable and Herne Bay, 1st Marple Scouts, Goyt, Gt. Manchester East Manager, Gt. Manchester North Training Adviser, Kent Robert Edmund Stanfield District Commissioner, Henry James Sydney Treveil Group Chairman, 16th Jennifer Ann Whittaker Cub Scout Leader, Bristol South Erith, Bexley, Gt. London South East 1st Littlebourne, Canterbury Whitstable and Herne Bay, Martin Frank Stanworth Group Scout Leader, Paul Duncan Trott County Commissioner, Training Adviser, Kent 6th Eastcote, Ruislip Eastcote Northwood, Gt. London Gloucestershire Lesley June Wickens Assistant District Commissioner, Middlesex West Stephen George Tucker Assistant District Basingstoke, Training Adviser, Hampshire Julia Stenhouse District Commissioner, Tynemouth, Commissioner Cub Scouts, Dunbartonshire, Barclay Robert Wiggins District Scout Active Support Training Adviser, Northumberland West – Scotland Member, International Scout Active Support Unit, National John Charles Stevens District Scout Active Support Michael Peter Tullberg Assistant Scout Leader, Headquarters, Appointments Secretary, District Scout Active Member, District Appointment Advisory Committee 9th St. Albans, District Nights Away Adviser, District Adviser for Support Member, Assistant District Commissioner General Member, District Chairman, Romsey, Hampshire Water Activities, District Scout Active Support Co-ordinator, Duties, District Explorer Scout Administrator, West Devon, Ernest Roy Stevenson Assistant Cub Scout District Scout Active Support Member, St Albans, Assessor for Local Training Administrator, Devon Leader, 27th Derby (Chaddersden), District Scout Canoeing Open Inland, Assessor for Kayaking River, Assessor Deborah Anne Wilkinson District Scout Active Support Active Support Co-ordinator, Derby East, for Kayaking Open Inland, Assessor for Canoeing River, Member, York Ebor, Assessor for Rafting (Traditional), Training Adviser, Derbyshire Assessor for Dragon Boating, Hertfordshire Assessor for Kayaking Open Inland, Assessor for Canoeing Gordon James Stevenson Scout Leader, Judith Ann Turner Beaver Scout Leader, 16th Hendon Open Inland, Trainer, 48th Fife (Dalgety Bay), Training Adviser, District Scout (St Mary Magdalene), District Badge Secretary, District County Skills Instructor, North Yorkshire Active Support Member, Rosyth, East – Scotland Beaver Scout Leader, Barnet Borough, Training Adviser, Gt. Paul Willicombe District Scout Active Support Member, David Stokes Assistant Scout Leader, 1st Winlaton, London North Cardiff East and South, Area Appointment Advisory Committee District Explorer Scout Commissioner, Blaydon and District, Peter Alan Turner Scout Active Support Member, Member, Area Supporter, Area Executive Member, Assistant County Commissioner Explorer Scouts, Training Gt. London South West Area Nights Away Adviser, Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Adviser, County Executive Member, Durham Sharon Ann Vanns Assistant Group Scout Leader, Jacqueline Susan Willis District Scout Active Support Caroline Stone Group Scout Active Support Member, 6th Tonbridge (Hadlow), District Cub Scout Leader, Training Member, Thameside Grand Union, District Commissioner, 9th West Wickham (Special Needs), Assistant Explorer Adviser, Tonbridge, Kent West London, Trainer, Gt. London Middlesex West Scout Leader, Bromley, Gt. London South East Dennis Vasey District Adviser For Shooting, Agnes Moore McIntyre Wilson Group Scout Leader, John Ian Stone Group Scout Leader, 9th West Wickham District Scout Active Support Member, District Scout Leader, 3rd Blackpool (St Marks), Blackpool and District, West (Special Needs), Bromley, Gt. London South East Scarborough and District, North Yorkshire Lancashire Mark Trevor Strain District Commissioner, District Peter Robert Volkner Assistant Group Scout James Fairgreave Wilson Regional Treasurer – Scout Active Support Member, Worcester, Trainer, Training Leader, 1st St Austell, Mid Cornwall, Assistant County Scotland, East – Scotland Adviser, Hereford and Worcester Commissioner Cub Scouts, Cornwall Linda Maxine Wilson Cub Scout Leader, Toby John Stromberg District Adviser for Duke of Alan Edwin Wade District Scout Active Support 1st Haverfordwest, Assistant District Commissioner Edinburgh’s Award, District Explorer Scout Commissioner, Member, Pang Valley, Royal Berkshire Cub Scouts, Pembrokeshire District, Pembrokeshire Training Adviser, Watford South, Hertfordshire John Wainwright Group Scout Leader, 267th Sheffield Nicholas James Winter District Scout Active Support Janet Kathleen Stuckey Group Administrator, Cub (Dore) Sheffield Hallam, South Yorkshire Member, International Scout Active Support Unit, National Scout Leader, 1st Ingrave, District Appointment Advisory George Peter Walker Assistant Scout Leader, Headquarters, Scout Active Support Member, Wales, Deputy Committee Member, District Explorer Scout Leader, Training 5th Dundee (Downfield), Training Adviser, Dundee, Scottish District Commissioner, Bristol South, Avon Adviser, Brentwood and District, Trainer, Essex Headquarters Commissioner Scouts, Scotland Barbara Wood Assistant Group Scout Leader, Sell’s Janet Sutton District Scout Active Support Member, William George Wallace District Scout Active Support Seventh (Icknield Luton), Icknield (Luton), Bedfordshire Scout Communications Active Support Unit, National Member, Torfaen, Gwent Trudy Doreen Woodcock Group Scout Active Support Headquarters, Cub Scout Leader, Group Scout Active Damian John Walsh Training Adviser, Deputy Member, 1st Trent Side, District Scout Active Support Support Member, 163rd Birmingham (1st Wylde Green), District Commissioner, Watford North, Local Training Member, Central Notts, Nottinghamshire Sutton Coldfield West, Birmingham Manager, Hertfordshire Ann Margaret Woolsey Beaver Scout Leader, John Joseph Swarbrick District Secretary, District William Edward George Ward Group Treasurer, 9th Greenford (Holy Cross), District Beaver Scout Leader, Scout Active Support Member, Fylde, West Lancashire Chislehurst (Invicta), Bromley, Gt. London South East Greenford and District, Gt. London Middlesex West Roger William Taplin Group Scout Leader, Garry James Warr Scout Leader, 30th Northampton Graham Leslie Wrenn Group Executive Member, 18th 1st Marshfield, Cotswold Edge, Avon (Abington Avenue), Northampton, Northamptonshire Norwich (1st Hellesdon) ELO, District Scout Active Support Philomena Taylor Cub Scout Leader, 80th Glasgow Terence Watson District Adviser for Shooting, District Manager, Northern Norwich, Norfolk (Roman Catholic), Great Western, Clyde – Scotland Scout Active Support Member, District Scout Leader, Frances Lilian Wright County Supporter, Sarra Lisa Taylor-Brown Scout Leader, Group Scout Scarborough And District, North Yorkshire County Treasurer, Somerset Leader (Acting), 9th Greenford (Holy Cross), District Scout Ian Kendall Weatherall District Administrator, James Andrew Wrigley District Appointments Leader, Greenford and District, Training Adviser, Trainer, Gt. District Executive Member, District Appointment Advisory Chairman, Assistant District Commissioner Adult Support, London Middlesex West Committee Member, District Scout Active Support Member, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire Colin Gareth Thomas District Supporter, District Scout Ely, Training Adviser, County Secretary, Cambridgeshire Alan Blair Yarker District Supporter, Halifax, Active Support Member, Epsom and Ewell, Surrey Paul Ian Webb Assistant Scout Leader, 1st Shirley, West Yorkshire Marie Cherryl Thomas Explorer Scout Leader (Young Blythe, Assistant County Commissioner Scouts, Solihull Andrew James Young Scout Active Support Member, Leader), District Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Theresa Ann Webb Cub Scout Leader, 1st Romford (St County Administrator, County Nights Away Adviser, Kent, Crompton and Royton, Edwards), District Nights Away Adviser, District Scout Active Group Scout Leader, 2nd Benson (R.A.F.), Thames Chiltern, Gt. Manchester North Support Member, Romford, Gt. London North East Assessor for Climbing (Multi Pitch), Manager of the Active Christine Ann Thompson District Supporter, Jennifer Wheeler Cub Scout Leader, 1st Bury Permit Scheme, Assessor for Ice Climbing, Assessor for Wigan and District, Gt. Manchester West St Edmunds Mayor’s Own, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Hillwalking, Oxfordshire

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Good Service Awards Applications for Good Service can be submitted any time of the year and if approved, the Chief Scout’s Commendation for Good Service, Award for Merit and its Bar are awarded usually within eight weeks of the application being received. Applications for the Silver Wolf, Silver Acorn and its Bar are usually considered for inclusion in the St George’s Day Awards list, although they can be requested ‘out of season’ given exceptional circumstances. Chief Scout’s Nominations that are made by Headquarters Commendation for staff or some County/Area appointments for Award for Merit for Good Service their service to Scouting occur once a year within In recognition of the St George’s Day Awards. In recognition of good outstanding service. service. The Award for Merit is given for The Chief Scout’s Commendation for outstanding service of not less than 12 Good Service is given in respect of years, but exceptionally after 10 years. not less than five years’ good service Amir Aziz Cheema Assistant Explorer Scout Leader, which stands out. It is the Chief District Commissioner, Brunel, Muslim Scout Fellowship, Scout’s recognition of the very real Headquarters contribution made to the Association Sarah Elizabeth Dawson District Scout Active by the individual concerned. Support Member, Selby, County Commissioner, County Administrator, North Yorkshire Teri Adams Training Adviser, Chingford, County James Paul Hopkins BVeTMed MRCVS Training Manager, Trainer, Greater London North East, Area Media Development Manager, Ceredigion, P and D Administrative Assistant, Headquarters Chief Commissioner, Wales Kathryn Elizabeth Andrews LLB PGDip Richard Ieuan Jackson Area Commissioner, Group Scout Leader, 5th/9th Chelmsford (St Andrews Brecknock and All Saints), Chelmsford and District, Essex, Thomas Jowett District Scout Active Support Bar to the Award Regional Development Officer, Headquarters Manager, Deep Sea Scouts, Headquarters Frances Beck Accounts Receivable Supervisor, for Merit Jessica Kelly Assistant Scout Leader, 2nd Muswell Headquarters Hill, Haringey, District Skills Instructor, Training Adviser, In recognition of further Bianca Cole Assistant Explorer Scout Leader, Dockland Scout Project, Greater London North, Southend West, Scout Active Support Member, Adventure Development Manager, Headquarters outstanding service. Essex, P and D Adviser, Headquarters David Gareth Watson Scout Active Support Christian Eric Doll District Appointment Advisory Member, Glamorgan West, Chief Commissioner Wales The Bar to the Award for Merit Committee Member, Sittingbourne and Milton, Julia Margaret Westall P and D Administrative Kent, Regional Administrator, Deputy Regional can only be awarded after an Assistant, Headquarters Award for Merit has been gained. Commissioner, South West Gemma Louise Gurden Regional Development Manager, Headquarters Dean Graham Jefferys BA MA PGCE FInstLM Mark Daniel Guy BSc (Hons) Cub Scout Leader, National Headquarters Volunteer, Headquarters, Training 1st Barnham, Arundel and Littlehampton, Adviser (Admin), Greater London, Group Member, 2nd West Sussex, District Scout Active Support Member, Elm Park, Group FLAGS, National Headquarters, Regional Development Scout Leader, 1st Harrow Lodge, Hornchurch, Officer, Headquarters Trainer, Campsite Management Committee Member, John Frederick McAtominey Scout Leader, Greater London North East, Regional Commissioner, 4th Chester-le-Street, District Executive Member, Greater London Chester-le-Street, Training Adviser, Durham, Regional Development Officer, Headquarters Jean Elizabeth Watson District Appointments Advisory Committee Member, Brunel, Scout Active Support Member, Avon, Scout Active Support Manager, Regional Development Officer, Headquarters

scouts.org.uk/magazine 15 County: Although in some parts of the British Isles Scout Counties are known as Areas or Islands – and in one case Bailiwick – for ease of reading this publication simply refers to County/Counties. In Scotland there is no direct equivalent to County or Area. In Scotland, Scouting is organised into Districts and Regions, each with distinct responsibilities. Some ‘Country’ functions are the responsibility of Scottish Regions, while others lie with Scottish Districts. The focus of responsibility is outlined in Scottish variations from POR.